Posted by 5GJW [5thGenerationJW] on April 06, 1999 at 23:16:06 {JK6FUAMFdMlo6QIt25t6ZX9D1q7/.6}:
In Reply to: Light Slowed to 38 mph in Lab posted by Rick on April 06, 1999 at 18:26:41:
>It seems the most "sacred" constant of physics, space and time, the speed of light, is now within man's grasp to alter.
Not exactly. The speed of light can be altered by the medium that it is passing through, in a way that is analogous to sound traveling faster through water than it does through air. What these researchers have done is that they have found a medium where light travels much slower than it does in free space. No laws have been altered, they have only been applied.
5GJW, who is not certain where he left his Heisenburg