Back in 2000, a team of physicists led by Lijun Wang at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, USA, pulled off a mind-bending experiment. They fired a precisely shaped laser pulse through a special ...
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The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in vacuum. However, in so-called epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, light exhibits ...
The speed of light is one of the most fundamental constants in physics and an enduring source of fascination for scientists and curious minds alike. At approximately 299,792 kilometres per second in a ...
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