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t's not the first time that physicists claim that the speed of light can be modified, and even exceed the theoretical limit called c without violating Einstein's laws of relativity (check for example this article from two years ago). Now, researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, claim that light can travel faster than light!. They were able to control the speed of light in an off-the-shelf optical fiber. They said that they did "slow a light signal down by a factor of 3.6 (or about 71,000 km/s), creating a sort of temporary "optical memory." On the other hand, they also did create "extreme conditions in which the light signal travelled faster than 300 million meters a second."
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