We were told a few weeks back about scientists having found neutrinos that travelled faster than light.
This is the faster than light expansion that cosmologists believe the Universe experienced in its first, fleeting moments.
In the meantime, I would point Star Trek fans to FTL: Faster Than Light and Waking Mars.
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If measured this way the neutrinos will not be faster than light, provided Distance and Time can be correctly measured.
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But the really important question is of course whether it is actually true that the neutrinos were travelling faster than light.
The final nail in the coffin may have been dealt to the idea that neutrino particles can travel faster than light.
Just as you can write a great sci-fi TV series by entirely ignoring all of the physics of faster than light travel.
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Everything takes a good hit here, from the absurdity of common sci-fi tropes like faster than light travel, ninjas, travel agents and tourists.
At the time, the physicists were stunned because such a result seemed to break Einstein's prediction that nothing could travel faster than light.
Each beacon might be deserted, or contain friendlies offering support, or an enemy ship to be fought or escaped with another faster than light jump.
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If Albert Einstein was right, nothing travels faster than light.
The scientific community held its collective breath when research published by CERN suggested that the little guys had been caught traveling at an Einstein-defying 3.7 miles per second faster than light.
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If the belligerents are hurtling missiles at each other that travel faster than light, it might be difficult to prosecute a war for resources without destroying the planets that have the resources they covet.
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At a fundamental level, it also supports an "add-on" to this Big Bang theory known as inflation, which postulates that in the very first moments of its existence the Universe opened up in an exponential manner - faster than light itself.
Thus, photons cannot time travel, and moving information around at faster-than-light speeds is impossible.
Relativity-worshipping physicists can (and probably will) escape the faster-than-light neutrinos dilemma by dodging GPS and thus dodging relativistic time equations.
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Those instructions are sent via normal communications, which are limited to being no faster than the speed of light.
That gravitational map may turn out to be a key to determine whether or not neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.
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The paper, which you can read here, notes that neutrinos at the recorded energies that were travelling faster than the speed of light should should be radiating particles as the neutrinos were travelling.
Boston University physicists Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow have just submitted a paper which casts more doubt on the claims that the OPERA team observed neutrinos that traveled faster than the speed of light.
This, Dr Levoy explains, is mainly down to the processing power of devices, such as camera-equipped smartphones, growing faster than the capacity of sensors which record light data.
Studies comparing the age of teeth with the age shown by the rest of the skeleton suggest that Neanderthal children grew up faster than modern humans, and this may cast light on why our species survived and theirs did not.
While data and information move at the speed of light, tangible three-dimensional products are moving faster and in greater volumes than ever before.
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