'We have broken speed of light' A pair of German physicists claims to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. The pair says 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. Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. Source: Telegraph
Warping will be possible in the future. But "an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving" is insane.
its already been proved, but not over the speed of light an astronaut travelling very fast in space actually experiences a slow down in time, so technically he ages less relative to the people on earth. if you were to then begin to speed up enormously say to the speed of light, theoretically its possible to travel back in time
^ Think so. I didn't see anything about it being confirmed. It only said they claimed to have gone past the speed of light.
well i now submit a claim that i am superman...an achievement that would mean i am now the ruler of planet earth and all surrounding planets.
this has no practical applications. the experiment involved the use of photons, which have no mass. This is more exciting then it sounds, it still doesn't disprove Einstein's theory that "Nothing with mass can exceed the speed of light". it is still however, a leap forward for quantum physics.
