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From The Australian:
HAMBURG: Two German physicists claim to have done the impossible and broken the speed of light.
If their claims are confirmed, they will have proved wrong Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which requires an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 299,792km a second.
However, Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, from the University of Koblenz, say they have possibly breached a key tenet of that theory.
They 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 from a few millimetres to up to one metre apart.
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