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breaking the light barrier



At 3:45 PM -0600 9/18/02, EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU wrote:

BREAKING THE SPEED OF LIGHT, ON A BUDGET
Researchers at Middle Tennessee State University have created a device
that can send electric signals at four times the speed of light, and
they did so with commonly available components costing $500. This is
not the first time electric signals have exceeded the speed of light,
but it is the first time it's been done without extremely expensive
equipment. The device, which one researcher was able to assemble from
parts in just 40 minutes, can create a pulse of energy that, measured
by an oscilloscope, moves at 4 billion kilometers per hour. Bill
Robertson, one of the researchers, hopes that students and other
researchers can use the device to cheaply test some of the basic
theories of modern science.
New Scientist, 16 September 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992796