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post Aug 16 2007, 02:26 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm...scispeed116.xml


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...
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post Aug 16 2007, 02:26 PM
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post Aug 16 2007, 02:54 PM
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post Aug 16 2007, 04:47 PM
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post Aug 16 2007, 05:06 PM
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hell yeah.
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post Aug 16 2007, 06:41 PM
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I'm going to vacation on Mars when I grow up now! And I don't have to worry about getting home in time!
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post Aug 17 2007, 03:04 AM
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id rather not be transmitted as a data wave. id send one of my cats though!
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post Aug 17 2007, 06:14 AM
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Now instead of being global police, America can be galatactic police!
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post Aug 17 2007, 10:32 AM
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make the kids leave the room for this:


America, Fuck Yeah.


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post Aug 17 2007, 03:43 PM
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A Zillion more things to do and we are done.



Although these photons had travelled a longer distance, they arrived at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons. This suggests that the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light.

So this prove Einstein was wrong.
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post Aug 18 2007, 09:21 AM
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i don't think any of us realize the significance of this, i know i certainly don't.
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post Aug 18 2007, 10:07 AM
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Now instead of being global police, America can be galatactic police!


Who knows we are probably already policing space.

For all we know the Star Wars program has been up and running since the Reagan Administration.
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post Aug 18 2007, 01:21 PM
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I lawled! :smokin:
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post Aug 18 2007, 09:03 PM
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Well..I wouldnt jump the gun. Its two guys claiming it. It will need to be peer reviewed and be reproducable. We will see.
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post Aug 18 2007, 10:33 PM
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Who knows we are probably already policing space.

For all we know the Star Wars program has been up and running since the Reagan Administration.


:thumbsup:


... aw c'mon Vet' we're just havin' a laugh... biggrin.gif

yeah its a long way from having 'hyper-drive'.
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post Aug 23 2007, 07:23 PM
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If true, This is the most important breakthrough in science for a long time, possibly ever.
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post Aug 24 2007, 07:22 PM
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Important, most certainly. But I am not surprised.
There is soooooo much more yet to learn.
This does keep it exciting though.
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