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Faster Than The Speed Of Light?
By AMANDA STRANIERO AP July 19, 2000, 7:48 PM
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

"Scientists have apparently broken the universe's speed limit.

For generations, physicists believed there is nothing faster than light moving through a vacuum -- a speed of 186,000 miles per second.

But in an experiment in Princeton, N.J., physicists sent a pulse of laser light through cesium vapor so quickly that it left the chamber before it had even finished entering.

The pulse traveled 310 times the distance it would have covered if the chamber had contained a vacuum.

Researchers say it is the most convincing demonstration yet that the speed of light -- supposedly an ironclad rule of nature -- can be pushed beyond known boundaries, at least under certain laboratory circumstances.

"This effect cannot be used to send information back in time," said Lijun Wang, a researcher with the private NEC Institute. "However, our experiment does show that the generally held misconception that 'nothing can travel faster than the speed of light' is wrong."

I thought this would have received some attention here by now.

[zorgon]

{hic}  No Ocifer I really don't know how fast I was going...  {hic}

"Well I know its late at night and no one on the road...  you were doing about 85 there (70 mph zone )  Just take it easy...."

Thanks Officer... really appreciate that... have a nice night!"

Meanwhile I know damn well the Rally Car was over 100 to 110   Awww the good old days... miss those   LOL


Yeah I spotted this go by on FB but forgot to get back to it...... As I recall some years ago they had some similar results but we never followed up on that either... Seems we are dropping the ball around here LOL  Glad you picked it up