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Going over c

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Philip Ball explains why the foundations of physics are not quaking at suggestions that the ultimate speed limit ñ the speed of light ñ might have been broken. .

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  1. Wang,L. J., Kuzmich, A. & Dogariu, A. Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation. Nature 406, 277 - 279 2000.

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