Jim Phillips wrote:

>July 19 -  Can anything break the cosmic speed limit of 186,000 miles per
>second? For weeks, scientific circles have been buzzing about an experiment
>that pulsed light through a special chamber so fast that it left the
>apparatus before it fully entered it. Now the research has been released at
>last, and the experimenters say their findings contradict no laws of
>physics - just the misconceptions people have about them.

While not related to the experiment described here, there was a classic
paper in the late 1950s called _The Endochronic Properties of
Resublimated Thiotimoline_, which describes a chemical so soluble in
water that under certain circumstances, it dissolves just before the
water is added.

-- Bruce


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