On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*>>This new design only loses half its light every 33 km, can transmit 1000 >> times more power than a solid fiber, has a wide frequency range, and >> perhaps most important of all can transmit a signal 45% faster than a solid >> glass fiber. * > > > *> That's hard to believe. Optic fibers have an index of refraction of > 1.44 to 1.50; so 1.45 times as fast is roughly c.* > *Yes but that's because the glass just confines the light, the fiber is mostly hollow so the light is actually traveling in a vacuum; well almost, it travels through a gas at atmospheric pressure. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* *esh* *3nn* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv00TUeXs3cFHyM3e8wyfwCTjMKE8Jsu9moBV%2Bkc1vSAWQ%40mail.gmail.com.
