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Re: French Scientists Make Light Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light....yeah
Old 08-25-2005, 02:23 AM   #7
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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.
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