On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:46:26 +1000, David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>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!

Ah, so you've read!

> (Personally, I fink it's wunderfull!  I can arrive
>back at home before I've left -

You could've done it WITHOUT the new laws of physics -- by just
crossing the International Date Line -- going EAST.  :-)  Remember
my Palau trip in which I started in Guam on 1/1/98, and arrived
Honolulu on 12/31/97 just in time for the SECOND New Year's Eve?

>and therefore - have the same amount of
>money as when I started  and  a headache to boot!)  :-)

Unfortunately, THAT does not follow.  :-)  I had THREE different
New Year's Eve in 1997 ... I had less and less money as I went ...
and my headache was steadily increasing, not for drinking any booze,
but from the total FLIGHT time approaching 30 hours.   :-)

-- Bob.