"...by getting light to go faster than, well, light."

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from Ker Than's article on what's going on in FTL research:
Researchers in Switzerland have succeeded in breaking the cosmic speed limit by getting light to go faster than, well, light.

Or is it all an illusion?

Scientists have recently succeeded in doing all sorts of fancy things with light, including slowing it down and even stopping it all together. Now a team at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland is controlling the speed of light using simple off-the-shelf optical fibers, without the aid of special media such as cold gases or crystalline solids like in other experiments.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/050819_fastlight.html

When confronted with really kewl research "stuff" I usually only have one thing to say: "Wow, man, thaz kewl..." I think that pretty much says it all in this case too.
 
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