Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz in Germany, claim to have broken the speed of light. They have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons traveled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart, which would be faster than the 186,000 miles per second that Albert Einstein once said would take an infinite amount of energy to power.
There's no word on whether or not the Germans are planning on harnessing the power of light speed to go back in time and resurrect the Third Reich, or if this is a leak of the plot of the next Indiana Jones film, but if these men are successful, then physics, as we know it, is over.
Nearly every science fiction story of our time is based on the theoretical breaking of the light speed barrier. Now, if it is indeed possible to go faster than the speed of light, you would, theoretically, be able to travel in time.
Which. Is. Mind. Blowing.
Of course, the difference between sending microwave photons at the speed of light and anything else, say, a human, is astronomical. Still, one never knows what the eventual application of this theoretical science will be.
Telegraph: 'We have broken speed of light'
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3' apart, how long would it take something travling that distance @ the speed of light, Nths of a second.
No way the broke the light barrier!
They must have forgot to carry a one or something......... Naa Won't believe it until I am standing in a star ship traveling warp 1.5.
textbooks are going to be rewritten
imagine if we could control the power of the light?! the amount of fuel and
how far in the galaxy we could go
Einstein is overrated he really was just an averag genius with some out there theories and a little fun fact: the theory of relativity is the last theory of Einstein that hasnt been disproved by modern science
Dark Helmet: No, no, no. Light speed is too slow.
Colonel Sandurz: Light speed is too slow?
Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have go right to... ludicrous speed.
"if i close my eyes everything around me becomes energy because it doesnt exist when i can't see it! GO AHEAD! TRY TO DISPROVE ME!" *cackles in a corner while coloring a pencil with a crayon*
das awesome, im gonna go levitate now, then walk on water and mabye even go back in time and tell timmy that the well isnt the best place to play hide and go seek.
1. Spacing of "microwaves"
2. Mispelling of "Which","yeah","atoms","specif ic","controlled", "environment."
3. Use of "there" instead of they're.
Now, I wouldn't jump so far as to say "time travel here we come", but this does bring up the possibilty of interstellar travel in years rather than decades. Who knows, we may be seeing Mars a lot sooner than we thought.
1. Spacing of "microwaves"
2. Mispelling of "Which","yeah","atoms","specif ic","controlled", "environment."
3. Use of "there" instead of they're.
1. Spacing of "microwaves"
2. Mispelling of "Which","yeah","atoms","specif ic","controlled", "environment."
3. Use of "there" instead of they're.
http://abovetopsecret.com/fo rum/thread297224/pg1
"your opinion and input is rendered invalid for the following reasons:
1. Spacing of "microwaves"
2. Mispelling of "Which","yeah","atoms","specif ic","controlled", "environment."
3. Use of "there" instead of they're."
akshually, u r rong brewzer400, "your" shuld bee capitilized, cuz it iz da beggining of a centence; u shuld also rite out da numburz, do knot yuse numerrals (ex. insted of 1, rite one). "there" is a werd, sow it iz schpelled correctlie/