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View Full Version : French Scientists Make Light Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light....yeah

Acebot44
08-21-2005, 03:17 AM
Observe (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/epfd-ltt081905.php)
Happydude
08-21-2005, 05:05 AM
cool....i guess....doesn't say much now, but hopefully they will be able to harness this in normal computers within the next 10 years or less.
GiMpY-wAnNaBe
08-23-2005, 12:56 AM
does this warrant some changes in the theory of relativity, considering that light in a vacuum is not longer the base of comparison?
Jonbo298
08-23-2005, 01:00 AM
There will always be something faster then the supposed "fastest speed". Things will travel faster then light, then warp speed will be too slow and things will be faster then it :p
Dark Samurai
08-23-2005, 02:10 AM
Look out, World! I'll be going 8 times around you in a second now!!!
Neo
08-24-2005, 08:09 PM
Only a portion of the signal is altered? What the heck does that mean?
Xantar
08-25-2005, 02:23 AM
Assuming that this isn't all quack science, it may be related to a study I read about where a researcher got particle to apparently quantum tunnel. That is to say it came in contact with a solid and instantaneously transferred to the other side.

But in fact, what a lot of people think happened is that the particle, which is also a light wave but you already knew that if you knew anything at all about particle physics, simply shifted forward so that its wave density was higher at the front. It would be like if you had a bus moving at 50 mph and then Keanu Reeves got everybody to move to the front of the bus. Thus, when it passes by a detector, the machine might be fooled into thinking that the bus has traveled fractionally faster than 50 mph even though it never did. It also might explain the reference that confused Neo about "only a portion of the signal" being moved.

The rest of you who are slavering over computer applications should go learn some quantum physics.
Professor S
08-25-2005, 09:24 AM
The rest of you who are slavering over computer applications should go learn some quantum physics.

Quantum Physics? I still don't know what the Hell your avatar means...
Xantar
08-25-2005, 12:44 PM
It's an E with a reverse L. But I guess I shouldn't have expected much better from an Ursinus boy. :D