faster than the speed of light

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MellowDee
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"If I can exceed the speed of light while driving to work in the morning, then surely they can do it in the lab."

Hahaha!!

In school we had a pneumonic to remember the order of the planets in the solar system which went:

"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Peaches"

No I guess it'll be just:

"My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us...Nothing"

Hey Pluto no hard feelings eh on being rejected as a real planet. I always accepted you and looked up to you as a real planet. Hey for some of us you're still a planet, no matter what the white coat astronomers say.
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WaterPhoenix
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By Einstein's theories: if one were to perceive light, time would always slow down for them to consistently view it at the constant speed of light.

Ways to go back in time.

1. Go faster than speed of light by movement (impossible).

2. Twist space faster than light using gravity (inconvenient).

3. Use a circulating light beam to twist space and loop time.

4. Put on your robe and wizard hat.


By method 3 - If it were to refract through the gas, slowing down time so that each beam of light would eventually be perceived at the speed of light, particles would begin to travel back in time. Light reflected on a particular (or several) particle(s) that travelled back in time could technically appear before the light entered.

By method 4 - A wizard did it.
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"However, Lijun Wang, one of the scientists from the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says their findings are not at odds with Einstein.

She says their experiment only disproves the general misconception that nothing can move faster than the speed of light.

The scientific statement "nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light" is an entirely different belief, one that has yet to be proven wrong. The NEC experiment caused a pulse of light, a group of waves with no mass, to go faster than light."

(http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/speedlight000720.html)<BR>
I've read far too much of this stuff.

mmmmm, lots of stretched rubber and flying objects 😛