On Thursday, July 20, 2000 10:22 PM, Reef Fish wrote:

(snip)

> HOWEVER, as of today, we MAY live forever, as the fundamental and
> sacred "law" of physics that the ULTIMATE speed limit (which I am
> still trying to find out what would be the fine if I had broken it
> while driving an automobile) of 186,000 miles per second (the
> speed of light in vacuum) has been BROKEN, by a factor of 310,
> by a laser experiment performed by a Chinese (who else <BG>)
> physicist at Princeton.  In a nutshell, his laser beam LEFT before
> it ENTERED the chamber.  :-)

I was just trying to get a-hold of the copy of 'Nature' Magazine with the
extracts of the paper!  (Personally, I fink it's wunderfull!  I can arrive
back at home before I've left - and therefore - have the same amount of
money as when I started  and  a headache to boot!)  :-)

Strike