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Can a computer be "pushed" to perform faster-than-light?

Volkmar Putz, Karl Svozil

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We propose to "boost" the speed of communication and computation by immersing the computing environment into a medium whose index of refraction is smaller than one, thereby trespassing the speed-of-light barrier.

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7 pages, 1 figure, presented at the UC10 Hypercomputation Workshop "HyperNet 10" at The University of Tokyo on June 22, 2010
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physics.gen-phGeneral Physics

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