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HQ · 08-14-2002, 01:40 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26681.html

"Apple claims that "the faster-than-light processor speed gets an additional boost with an advanced cache memory architecture that provides ultrafast, dedicated memory with massively enhanced throughput."

Faster than light? Apparently so. Until now this achievement has been limited to small particles, such as photons, as apparently Feynman (a star of Apple's Think Different ads) suggested that the speed of light was only an average.

NEC researchers in Princeton, New Jersey, a beam of light through gas 300 times faster than the speed of light, which apparently "moved so fast that it appeared to exit from the chamber before it entered".

And a black hole in the M87 has been observed emitting jets at what appears to be six times the speed of light."

HQ · 08-14-2002, 01:43 PM

Also read this:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scien...ets990107.html

Kat - Fast · 08-14-2002, 01:54 PM

Faster than light - if it's a recorded speed then something can be made to match it or beat it.
Once upon a time (during the development of the steam locomotive) the general concensus of opinion was that if a person exceeded 35mph they would suffocate - laughable now, but that's what people believed only a couple of hundred years ago - natch, in a couple of hundred years people will think we were stupid to believe that nothing could go faster than light.

Or something.

08-14-2002, 01:40 PM	#1
HQ Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 3,539	FTL possible? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26681.html "Apple claims that "the faster-than-light processor speed gets an additional boost with an advanced cache memory architecture that provides ultrafast, dedicated memory with massively enhanced throughput." Faster than light? Apparently so. Until now this achievement has been limited to small particles, such as photons, as apparently Feynman (a star of Apple's Think Different ads) suggested that the speed of light was only an average. NEC researchers in Princeton, New Jersey, a beam of light through gas 300 times faster than the speed of light, which apparently "moved so fast that it appeared to exit from the chamber before it entered". And a black hole in the M87 has been observed emitting jets at what appears to be six times the speed of light."

08-14-2002, 01:43 PM	#2
HQ Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 3,539	Also read this: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scien...ets990107.html

08-14-2002, 01:54 PM	#3
Kat - Fast Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: The bushes behind your house Posts: 2,303	Faster than light - if it's a recorded speed then something can be made to match it or beat it. Once upon a time (during the development of the steam locomotive) the general concensus of opinion was that if a person exceeded 35mph they would suffocate - laughable now, but that's what people believed only a couple of hundred years ago - natch, in a couple of hundred years people will think we were stupid to believe that nothing could go faster than light. Or something.