Scientist break the speed of light....

[Bateluer]

Nothing is impossible. It wasn't that long ago that 'people' said powered flight was impossible and that if man was meant to fly, he'd have wings.

Who was is who said 'There's a thing about the human mind, if it can be done, it will be done.'? I think it was author of the Mars Trilogy, but can't remember for certain.

 

[DrPizza]

See silverpig's explanation. This is pretty old news; they've been doing this in experiments for over a year. Information STILL cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
Einstein really did not say faster than light travel is impossible. He said it was impossible because you cannot manipulate time.

The E=MC^2 equation can show faster than light travel when you let time move.

I am going off memory here a bit so I may be confusing something.

it's impossible because it would require imaginary energy (you get a square root of a negative number in sqrt(1-v^2/c2)).

here

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I hate how media stories do this. This type of tunneling has happened in experiment several times before. What basically happens is this:


Let's say a photon looks like a little fuzzy wave packet like so:

..::||::..

You set up a detector to measure this photon and see that it detects the photon most often when the fat middle part hits, but it occasionally detects the photon on the leading edge, or the trailing edge where the photon is thinner. You can think of the width of the photon I drew as the probability that the photon will be detected as that part of it crosses the detector.

What this experiment (and pretty much all others like it) do is to increase the phase velocity of the photon (the waves INSIDE it), thus shifting the photon around a bit like so:


...:::||:.


Now the meaty part comes earlier, and the photon is more likely to be detected earlier, however the leading and trailing edges still line up.

Why do your examples look so mad?

Maybe they shouldn't parse their emoticons.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Nothing is impossible. It wasn't that long ago that 'people' said powered flight was impossible and that if man was meant to fly, he'd have wings.

Who was is who said 'There's a thing about the human mind, if it can be done, it will be done.'? I think it was author of the Mars Trilogy, but can't remember for certain.

Its impossible for many things. What the people think and what scientists do are two different things though...scientists knew for a long time flight was possible it was just a matter of figuring out how.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: alkemyst
Einstein really did not say faster than light travel is impossible. He said it was impossible because you cannot manipulate time.

The E=MC^2 equation can show faster than light travel when you let time move.

I am going off memory here a bit so I may be confusing something.

it's impossible because it would require imaginary energy (you get a square root of a negative number in sqrt(1-v^2/c2)).

here

There are two methods for this equation to still work. One is manipulating time. Einstein always said it was a factor but since you can't alter it it was never made into the equation.

The other is slowing the constant which is light. There have been experiments where they have slowed light considerably.

The major problem is scaling it to people. It's only been applied to sub atomic particles.

It's been a while since I have operated at this level of math and science, I wish I had my notes handy.

 

[Kirby]

tesseract?

 

[dmcowen674]

Somebody blew a lot of money on a bogus experiment.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Somebody blew a lot of money on a bogus experiment.

So, now you're a top physicist now, too? Why aren't you off inventing working cold fusion or something, instead of trolling ATOT.