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Title: We have broken speed of light
Post by: Eyeball Chambers on August 16, 2007, 07:01:48 PM

We have broken speed of light
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 16/08/2007

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory.

The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.

For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on August 19, 2007, 10:09:43 AM

I don't care how fast you go, how can you get to a place before actually even leaving to get there?

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: WOOO on August 19, 2007, 11:31:40 AM

Quote from: Bindare_Dundat on August 19, 2007, 10:09:43 AM

I don't care how fast you go, how can you get to a place before actually even leaving to get there?

answer: you exist simultaneously in all places.

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on August 19, 2007, 11:55:41 AM

Quote from: WOOO on August 19, 2007, 11:31:40 AM

answer: you exist simultaneously in all places.

 everything needs a point of origin, doesn't it, or maybe i'm too stoned for this topic.  ??? :P

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: WOOO on August 19, 2007, 04:06:33 PM

Quote from: Bindare_Dundat on August 19, 2007, 11:55:41 AM

everything needs a point of origin, doesn't it, or maybe i'm too stoned for this topic.  ??? :P

not really.  time is the easiest concept to break down, if time = 0 then travel without time is possible...


the real question is did they move anything with MASS close to, at or beyond the speed of light... i doubt it... but without mass, well even basic relativity can explain it theoretically

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on August 19, 2007, 10:09:11 PM

Thanks.

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: blinky on August 19, 2007, 10:28:29 PM

i have..i can run REAL fast

Title: Re: We have broken speed of light
Post by: WOOO on August 20, 2007, 06:33:57 PM

Quote from: blinky on August 19, 2007, 10:28:29 PM

i have..i can run REAL fast

like mike vick?