Speed of light broken - again
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.
Quantum mechanics experiments routinely break the speed of light with things like what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." So far no one's found out how to do anything interesting with these speed of light violations, but if these people are actually sending photons at FTL speeds... That has potential use, at the least, in communication systems.
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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.
Quantum mechanics experiments routinely break the speed of light with things like what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." So far no one's found out how to do anything interesting with these speed of light violations, but if these people are actually sending photons at FTL speeds... That has potential use, at the least, in communication systems.
Courtesy of the Instapundit.