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Can a computer be "pushed" to perform faster-than-light?

General Physics 2010-07-27 v3

Abstract

We propose to "boost" the speed of communication and computation by immersing the computing environment into a medium whose index of refraction is smaller than one, thereby trespassing the speed-of-light barrier.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1003.1238,
  title  = {Can a computer be "pushed" to perform faster-than-light?},
  author = {Volkmar Putz and Karl Svozil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1238},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure, presented at the UC10 Hypercomputation Workshop "HyperNet 10" at The University of Tokyo on June 22, 2010

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