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.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, presented at the UC10 Hypercomputation Workshop
  "HyperNet 10" at The University of Tokyo on June 22, 201

Putz, Volkmar

Svozil, Karl

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We propose to “boost ” the speed of communication and computa-tion by immersing the computing environment into a medium whose index of refraction is smaller than one, thereby trespassing the speed-of-light barrier. The Church-Turing and the Cook-Karp theses, as well as other, more gen-eral limits on computation, are under permanent “scrutiny ” [cf. e.g., Davis (1958, p 11) or Deutsch (1985, p. 5)] by the physical sciences. Some re-cent issues which have been raised comprise Zeno-squeezed accelerated tim

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Karl Svozil

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

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