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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
but b' (which actually corresponds to b) appears to have travelled faster than velocity of light if it is wrongly considered to correspond to point c, the point of maximum amplitude.
in brief, therefore information (which is at point c) has not travelled with velocity faster than light. I hope I have explained the experiment clearly though somewhat crudely. If I will find some good article on this topic I will send it to you."
There is a news in the Times of India dated 20 Jan 2001 that the scientists Lene Vestergeard Hau of the Harvard University and a team led by Mikhail D. Lukin and Ronald L. Walsworth of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge have independently reduced the speed of light (photons) to zero for a millisecond.
The news are as under: "New experiments reduce speed of light to zero in a millisecond.
Researchers have been able to reduce the speed of light from 186,000 miles per second to zero, trapping the light beams for short periods of time before allowing them to burst forth again at full speed.
Now Hau's group and a team led by Mikhail D. Lukin and Ronald L. Walsworth of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge have independently gone that achievement better. They have brought the light pulse to a complete stop before allowing it to burst forth once again.
They could halt the beam for as long as a millisecond before turning the coupling beam back on and allowing the light pulse to re-emerge at full speed."
Of course there was a question for the existence of the tachyon particles but at present after the experiment carried out by Dr Lijun Wang, it may be shortly proved.
Both the experiments show that the statement regarding the velocity of atoms and sub-atomic particles or the tachyon particles that had been made by me 16 years ago has already been proved today.
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