Light actually travels faster through air than glass — which leads us neatly onto the creation of Francesco Poletti and the other members of his University of Southampton team: A hollow optical fiber that is mostly made of air.
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Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records | ExtremeTech
Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe’s speed limit: The speed of light. The researchers have used these …
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Wow nice.
Wow nice.