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Can scientists speed up the speed of light?
They can slow it down by changing its shape.
BBC:
A team of Scottish scientists has made light travel slower than the speed of light.
They sent photons - individual particles of light - through a special mask. It changed the photons' shape - and slowed them to less than light speed.
The photons remained travelling at the lower speed even when they returned to free space.
Since they can slow down light by changing its shape - can they speed up light by making different changes to it?
If so, that photon would be a TACHYON.
A Telephone to the past?
-T
They can slow it down by changing its shape.
BBC:
A team of Scottish scientists has made light travel slower than the speed of light.
They sent photons - individual particles of light - through a special mask. It changed the photons' shape - and slowed them to less than light speed.
The photons remained travelling at the lower speed even when they returned to free space.
Since they can slow down light by changing its shape - can they speed up light by making different changes to it?
If so, that photon would be a TACHYON.
A Telephone to the past?
-T