Give Me Warp Speed Scotty!
Myrmidonisia
17-08-2007, 16:20
We're a day closer to this being fact rather than fiction as the Telegraph reports (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml)...
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.
Hopefully, we're not looking at some badly calibrated equipment that will call the validity of the result into question, ala cold fusion.
Creepy Lurker
17-08-2007, 16:20
We're a day closer to this being fact rather than fiction as the Telegraph reports (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml)...
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.
Hopefully, we're not looking at some badly calibrated equipment that will call the validity of the result into question, ala cold fusion.
Not quite so clear cut unfortuantly
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/17/photons_ftl_not/
UpwardThrust
17-08-2007, 16:21
We're a day closer to this being fact rather than fiction as the Telegraph reports (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml)...
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.
Hopefully, we're not looking at some badly calibrated equipment that will call the validity of the result into question, ala cold fusion.
Apparently they are wrong
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-no-i-dont-think-so.html
(I will try and hunt down a main stream source)
Creepy Lurker
17-08-2007, 16:27
Apparently they are wrong
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-no-i-dont-think-so.html
(I will try and hunt down a main stream source)
Ars is pretty mainstream.
Troglobites
17-08-2007, 16:29
'Unfortunatly, the first person to test it, decided to wear his lucky red shirt that day.'
'Unfortunatly, the first person to test it, decided to wear his lucky red shirt that day.'
haha
Myrmidonisia
17-08-2007, 16:58
Apparently they are wrong
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-no-i-dont-think-so.html
(I will try and hunt down a main stream source)
I've got lots of doubts that they've done their work properly, but the real test is whether or not others can repeat the results. And you know there are labs setting up right now to do the same experiment...