technology physics telecommunications innovation fiber optics

Next generation fibre optics will be hollow tubes filled with air. And it only took them forty...

April 18, 2001·1 min read

Next generation fibre optics will be hollow tubes filled with air. And it only took them forty years to work out that light travels faster in air than in glass.

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