To: aculeus
Light doesn't travel the same speed through coax as it does through free space. There is a characteristic called "velocity factor". Light travels at about 2/3 the speed through coax compared to free space in RG8/U coax. I don't think the parties writing the article finished their basic electricity/electronics courses.
28 posted on
09/16/2002 8:17:26 AM PDT by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
Kinda hard to transmit light through RG anything... The whole point of the article is to show that 'something' can be propagated faster than 300 M m/sec. In this case a wavefront might be able to carry 'intelligence'. Think of a tsunami, where the 'wavefront' travels at, say, 600 mph across the ocean... and then it reaches a shorefront where the energy contained in the fast wavefront is converted into simple mechanical energy (height of water and forward speed). Got that? Probably not. Oh, well.
39 posted on
09/16/2002 8:29:16 AM PDT by
XNavyNuc
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