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.
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 …
Originally posted on Google+ · March 26, 2013
Wow nice.
Wow nice.