When
Noon – 1 p.m., Sept. 8, 2018
In a unique collaboration between University of Arizona Athletics, the College of Optical Sciences and the Department of Physics, cyclists will be able to race against a pulse of light with some chance of winning. Recent advances in physics have led to the technique of slowing the speed of light by more than eight orders of magnitude. The cyclists will set off at the eastern end of the University Mall at the same time that the light pulse enters a fiber-optic cable there, but because of the delay introduced midway, they will stand a chance of reaching the end of the course before the pulse re-emerges.