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