Black holes.

[Dr_Davenstein]

In these days, so are physicists. :lol:

[anarky]

I heard the speed of light slowed down some 1.2% throwing the theory of relativity out the window altogether...

>anarky

[whitetiger0990]

I heard the speed of light slowed down some 1.2% throwing the theory of relativity out the window altogether...

>anarky

You going to find a source for that? =p

[anarky]

This was too easy:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6092

Enjoy.

>anarky

[whitetiger0990]

Speed of light may have changed recently

ooooo it says "may" wow. okay. That must mean it's correct seeing as you didn't say "may" in this post:

I heard the speed of light slowed down some 1.2% throwing the theory of relativity out the window altogether...

>anarky

[Z!re]

Some female scientist, which name I forgot, has managed to "freeze" light. Making it possible to adjust it very precisely, before it's "unfrozen" and sent along.
Same technique can be used to read it.
Applications:
Faster information transfer

Anyways, if the speed of light, the actuall speed, can be changed, whats stopping that from happening near a black hole?
Maybe light can escape it's speed it just so low it takes so long we cant register it.
It's not like we can even come close to the levels of energy in a black hole, even computer simulations have a hard time simulating the energy amount.
Not to mention all we're doing is guessing, as noone has yet to find an actuall black hole. All we've found is random bursts of energy that could possibly and eventually perhaps be a black hole.

[Agamemnus]

Some female scientist, which name I forgot, has managed to "freeze" light. Making it possible to adjust it very precisely, before it's "unfrozen" and sent along.
Same technique can be used to read it.
Applications:
Faster information transfer

"Freezing" light has so far, in all the instances I've heard of "it", is simply moving light through a dense material or material that radiates light very slowly. In.... high school physics....., among other places.., we are told that when light (a photon) interacts (hits) with an atom, it makes electrons orbiting around it go into a higher orbit. After a while the electrons go back to their previous orbit and in the process "create" an outgoing photon. This process is also smacking of incompleteness but it somewhat explains that you cannot "stop" light. Light always goes at the speed of light you see.

In the case of "freezing" light, I can see that this might allow scientists to better design an optical processor. (one that is based on light rays refracting everywhere in a cube) Optical processors, if/when they are created/manufactured, would be much faster and simpler than regular processors. AFAIK, the current version of optical processors is used in fiberoptic switching points on the fiberoptic grid. They decide what information goes where...

[Z!re]

Some female scientist, which name I forgot, has managed to "freeze" light. Making it possible to adjust it very precisely, before it's "unfrozen" and sent along.
Same technique can be used to read it.
Applications:
Faster information transfer

"Freezing" light has so far, in all the instances I've heard of "it", is simply moving light through a dense material or material that radiates light very slowly. In.... high school physics....., among other places.., we are told that when light (a photon) interacts (hits) with an atom, it makes electrons orbiting around it go into a higher orbit. After a while the electrons go back to their previous orbit and in the process "create" an outgoing photon. This process is also smacking of incompleteness but it somewhat explains that you cannot "stop" light. Light always goes at the speed of light you see.

In the case of "freezing" light, I can see that this might allow scientists to better design an optical processor. (one that is based on light rays refracting everywhere in a cube) Optical processors, if/when they are created/manufactured, would be much faster and simpler than regular processors. AFAIK, the current version of optical processors is used in fiberoptic switching points on the fiberoptic grid. They decide what information goes where...

Ya, i know about light taking longer to go through, but still going at the same speed. But this was apparently, actually slowing of light.
I cant remember enough, or even say how true it is.. was an article in a magazine called "Illustrated Science" (translated from swedish)

Just figured I'd throw it in here =)

[shiftLynx]

This process is also smacking of incompleteness

What do you mean by this?

[Agamemnus]

We don't know what causes electrons to go into higher orbit when a photon hits or lower orbit and "emit" a photon. What is the underlying physical mechanism behind this? At its core I think physics can be simplified to a bunch of marbles with no properties except their discrete speed and direction hitting each other in a weird spacetime shape.