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  • Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?

    05/12/2006 7:42:17 AM PDT · by PatrickHenry · 75 replies · 2,957+ views
    University of Rochester ^ | 11 May 2006 | Staff (press release)
    In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light. Confused? You're not alone."I've had some of the world's experts scratching their heads over this one," says Robert Boyd, the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. "Theory predicted that we could send...