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Bad Science: Einstein Wrong, Form a Queue for Time Travel

Posted August 16, 2007 9:51 AM

From Gizmodo:

So, it turns out that maybe Einstein was wrong about that whole relativity thing. A couple of German physicists claim that they've broken the speed of light (with a photon, not a rocket, disappointingly). What this means is that time travel, instantaneous traveling between distant locations and really fast download speeds could all be possible. Using glass prisms, Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, have been able to make a photon pass through an uncrossable barrier, from a few millimeters thick, up to a meter. The pair assume that this is possible because the photon is traveling faster than the speed of light.

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Re: Bad Science: Einstein Wrong, Form a Queue for Time Travel

08/16/2007 2:46 PM

We already have another thread going on this, where it is held that the various popularized articles have it slightly wrong and that not even information is being passed at superluminal speeds.

Einstein is probably safe...

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