Alliedassault - View Single Post - scientists claim to have broken speed of light

Colonel · 08-18-2007, 09:03 AM

[quote:88e35]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.[/quote:88e35]

HAW! It seems to me that if the distance traveled is only 3 ft. it would be pretty hard to measure the difference between "instantaneous" and "got there pretty dang quick".

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Colonel is Offline Master Sergeant Posts: 1,789 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Marietta, GA	08-18-2007, 09:03 AM [quote:88e35]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.[/quote:88e35] HAW! It seems to me that if the distance traveled is only 3 ft. it would be pretty hard to measure the difference between "instantaneous" and "got there pretty dang quick".