Scientists Claim To Break Speed-of-Light Barrier

Ziggy · Post by **Ziggy** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:00 pm

By Maia Weinstock
Staff Writer
posted: 06:06 pm ET
19 July 2000

If zooming beyond the local speed limit is punishable by law, then some scientists may have a gargantuan speeding ticket to pay.

In a controversial experiment reported in this weeks journal Nature, scientists at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey claim to have broken the ultimate speed limit -- the speed of light. Though hotly contested, some say this achievement could dramatically increase the speeds at which we can send and receive information.

Taught in physics classes the world over, Albert Einsteins theory of special relativity holds that no object or information can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, or 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second. But NECs Lijun Wang says he created an experiment in which a light beam raced through a gas-filled chamber so quickly, it exceeded the speed of light by a factor of 300. Whats more, the light pulse appears to have left the confines of the chamber before it even entered a seemingly impossible occurrence according to theories of causality, which predict that causes must always precede their effects.

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Jay212 · Post by **Jay212** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:50 pm

And the phrase.. "If you go any faster, you'll be going backwards" can finally come into play. I wonder, how they keep an accurate... thing(grammar dosnt always work with me) of how fast the light beam is moving.

Ikku · Post by **Ikku** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:54 pm

The light left the chamber before it even entered it. I'm tripping balls. Reality is broken.

swanee89 · Post by **swanee89** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:22 am

holy shit, once you start to think about faster than the speed of light, you start thinkin of some trippy shit. especially while stoned!

Ziggy · Post by **Ziggy** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:15 am

I knew i could get some stoners to start tripping balls when i posted this lol

Post by **WeedGuru_Flow** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:12 am

Nice Ziggy, I love your posts, always very interesting reads

Post by **(weedguru)scarf** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:17 pm

Ikku wrote:The light left the chamber before it even entered it. I'm tripping balls. Reality is broken.

hahahah... i was thinking the same....i read it three times to make sure it was reading right

TmD · Post by **TmD** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:20 pm

i figured someone would figure out there is way to go faster than the speed of light eventually. How else did the aliens land here when they come from millions of light years away?

Funk Doctor · Post by **Funk Doctor** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:41 pm

Hyperspace, subspace and wormholes.

Clearly you did not pay attention during Star Trek.

Post by **WeedGuru_Flow** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:54 pm

Don't forget interdimensional hyperdrives!!

Ziggy · Post by **Ziggy** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:18 am

WeedGuru_Flow wrote:Nice Ziggy, I love your posts, always very interesting reads

Thx Flow
Much Appreciated

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Scientists Claim To Break Speed-of-Light Barrier

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