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Author Topic:   Reaching the practical end of physics?
jar
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Message 16 of 68 (437367)
11-29-2007 7:51 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by cavediver
11-29-2007 7:46 PM


Re: On the cusp of knowing nothing at all
Although if you actually read beyond the headline his own links says:
However, Lijun Wang, one of the scientists from the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says their findings are not at odds with Einstein.
She says their experiment only disproves the general misconception that nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
The scientific statement "nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light" is an entirely different belief, one that has yet to be proven wrong. The NEC experiment caused a pulse of light, a group of waves with no mass, to go faster than light.

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jar
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Message 20 of 68 (437375)
11-29-2007 8:17 PM
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11-29-2007 8:11 PM


Re: On the cusp of knowing nothing at all
Yeah. IIRC we have had a few threads about the experiment over the years. I'll see if I can dredge one of them up. I think Silas had a great post on it.

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