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Faster-than-light travel demonstrated in Germany

Posted on August 17th, 2007 — Filed under News and Science

‘We have broken speed of light’ – Telegraph:

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons – energetic packets of light – traveled “instantaneously” between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunneling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

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