> > Also, nowhere in that article you linked to do I see anything about speeding UP light.
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> You missed the last sentence, then:
> "In July, physicists in Princeton, New Jersey apparently pushed a laser pulse through a vapor of cesium atoms so it traveled faster than the conventional speed of light."
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> It doesn't say if they mean "the conventional speed of light in a vacuum" (serious news) or "the conventional speed of light in caesium vapour of density X" (ho hum) and, of course, there's that "apparently" that suggests that no-one's too sure if this is a real effect, or just the result of a poorly calibrated sensor.

I don't know too much about this, but isn't the main point whether or not *information* can be transmitted from one point to another faster than the speed of light? If this is the true barrier in physics, then should it even matter how many individual particles we can transport across vast distances near-instantaneously or whether a wave can propagate at arbitrarily high velocities?