Oooh, I'm gonna try that… when I have time. :\

this little game is awesome,
thanks much for the link.

Even neater, it can be done in real life!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/1.....itute_physics/
Quote:
"As we know from various experiments and papers, light can be slowed down a lot: if you can create a very exotic state of material called a Bose-Einstein Condensate, pretty much to a dead stop. A Bose-Einstein Condensate is, however, impractical for an Ethernet switch, since it exists close to absolute zero.

Slow light is useful for a couple of reasons, so a second aim of optics researchers is to find non-linear materials and configurations of the materials to significantly slow light down. Eggleston’s CUDOS group is quite pleased with its results – it's getting light down to 70 meters/second."

Seems that someone's trying to make a "slow light computer" because it'd use less energy and run cooler than an electronic one. (Plus, It's awesome!)

That's something different: The game is about reducing c, the speed of light in a vacuum. Those kinds of experiments are about slowing down photons by having them pass through a medium.

That light travels at less than c when not in a vacuum is not a new thing, it's why Cernkov radiation exists: Since the universal 'speed limit' is c, it is possible to get a particle moving in a medium faster than light does in that medium. This causes a 'photonic boom' in much the same way as travelling faster than the speed of sound causes a sonic boom.

What's really fun is that there nothing that says we can't go faster than the speed of light. We just can't travel at the speed of light.

so is this what The Flash sees when he runs?

GOT PLACES TO GO, GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAINBOW!