> I'm not sure what IIRC stands for, but you're behind the times. Look at the date on the article below. Not only has light been stopped, but it's also been speeded up beyond its normal limit.
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> A lot of things that were science fiction have become hard fact in the last few years. Another thing you may find hard to believe is teleportation, which has been done in several labs now. (Not the Star Trek type, but very real nevertheless.) There are two reasons why such things are typically not widely reported. One is that most reporters don't have the science background needed to realize why such stories are important, and the other is that most people would not understand them anyway.
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> Cold fusion is still being worked on, and there are some top-rate scientists who believe that it is very possible. They just don't say much, for fear of having their reputations ruined. Science is like religion, in that it has orthodoxies and heresies. The dirty secret of science is that most scientists are not nearly as open-minded as they want people to think they are. Right now cold fusion is a heresy, and anybody who speaks out in favor of it is shunned.

Maybe I *am* just a bit behind the times. My last physics class was in 1961, and a lot has changed since then. I guess at my age, being behind the times is considered normal.

Your take on science and scientists is right on target.

It's a giant step from the early 30's to the present. I was 17 before I ever saw one of those new-fangled radios with pictures. When I was in grade school, all airplanes had propellers, and a good road was a two-lane blacktop without too many patches. Telephones were in some houses, but they were tied to the wall. My first experience with air conditioning was in 1950 at a new 5&10 cent store in West Palm Beach.

I was the first of my family to be born in a hospital. They routinely kept mother and child for five days. After that, my parents brought me home on a streetcar. Congress celebrated my birth by repealing prohibition.

Ain't it awful how old coots ramble off on a tangent sometimes?
Howard