The abstract concludes with, "...we will continue to study the nature of light and hopefully it will provide us with a better insight about the natural world and further stimulate new thinking towards peaceful applications that will benefit all humanity."

If the rate of information transmission is still limited by the speed of light in a vacuum, I fail to see how this finding leads toward "peaceful applications that will benefit humanity." Can someone enlighten me?

Maybe it just means "hey Nobel prize committee, look over here."

I don't understand it much, but it did occur to me when I was reading it that if equipment can detect the light emerging the tunnel earlier, then it has a physical effect on the world. And perhaps that physical effect could be used to make a novel ion thruster or solar sail that is 300x more efficient. E=mc2 thus c=sqrt(E/m) and m for photon is constant -- proportionally higher c is balanced by a more efficient E?

Might be useful for a lot of things if the research holds up. Maybe we could get a realtime video feed of Mars, instead of being 15 minutes or so behind :) That would make exploration and space development and such a lot easier.

Incidentally, if we can't assume c as a constant, we might not be able to assume m as a constant for photons either.

Cool idea, but all charts are empty. Hugged by Hacker News?

Yeah - just got hugged!

Upgraded my mongodb atlas cluster to resolve the issue, apologies.

Same issue here, on mobile - firefoxpreview for Android - if that helps