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Happens to me every day - before I get home, its time to go to work again :roll:
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Keith - you'd better change your signature - put in a +/-

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If a telescope can fit into your backyard it's too small. If you can't move it, it's too big." -- John Dobson
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Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
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Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.

+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
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I remeber reading some years back in Scientific American (if I remember correctly) how they'd also managed to completely stop light and restart it using some exotic material. I think it was this same guy Robert Boyd who was involved.
The explanation given doesn't seem to violate relativity.
The explanation given doesn't seem to violate relativity.
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The article misses an important point. The pulse did not travel backwards so much as it traveled backwards in time.
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I'm glad I read that article, now I know what a migraine feels like.

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You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead
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