Faster than light if i had a big foot

[Tormod]

You might have read a story about the discovery that the phase velocity of light waves travels faster than the actual wave, like what is explained here:

Scientists break speed of light

However, as the article notes, this is only a matter of how wave motion is interpreted. It has still not been possible to use this motion to send information of any kind, and doing so would be a violation of relativity theory (although it would be really cool!).

[ErlyRisa]

that may be just 'info spoof' , but on first glance seems legit.

WOW --! ...so in effect NEC is trying to develop the next form of Real Time information exchange. (or even faster, I guess, that with each increase in speed transmission, you enlarge the data volume to an nth degree....ie you wouldn't be able to transmit the info entangled in the wave, but you could 'switch' it on and off, and with each divisional factor of wave transmission you can encode information as an SOS torch light effect... so C.300 would be 300bits per C --that's still a damn lot faster than a 2400 kbuad modem!!(on copper)) I just wonder, was distance a factor... ie 300c @ 2mm maybe a different concept to actually being able to stretch that 300c out over a distance?...would the 'speeden-ing' material be able to be made into a wire?

..Have you also heard of that thing an Aussie chick did, where she 'captured' light ... actually stopping it in a medium, and letting it go!! - It was a news article here in AU about 3 years ago.

[spectrum disorder]

Originally Posted by ErlyRisa

that may be just 'info spoof' , but on first glance seems legit.

..Have you also heard of that thing an Aussie chick did, where she 'captured' light ... actually stopping it in a medium, and letting it go!! - It was a news article here in AU about 3 years ago.

It is legit, it has been since duplicated in several establishments, and the stopping or slowing down of light is nothing new these days. I've read today (early this morning) about reversing light (will find link if I can - ps I read it in an email link it was about using specially created prisms but I deleted email without thinking I needed it) which has potential for invisble cloaking etc. We are now finding that with great leaps of faith we can transcend the limits we have 'imposed' in our current theories.

There's an article somewhere where quantum teleportation is now possible (albeit only with single particles in what are nothing more than experimental situations)

Current theories prove to be extremely limited in their scope, as the following statement indicates:

"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."

(quote from CBC article)

(I did a search and there are items about bending light the wrong way at: NBC - Harry Potter's 'Invisibility Cloak' Made Possible By Science? also Sci Am Visible Light Bent the 'Wrong' Way - sorry forum wont let me post links just run a google news search using these keywords: light cloak effect)

[ErlyRisa]

Yeah... I have always beleived, that when we 'ascend', or those that already have eg. Jesus... are just BIG FOOTS... information as part of the universe.

are we understanding the matrix yet?

The Matrix...

It's a bueatifull thoery regarding...the Higher/Controlling Entity (the computer) and the Evolution of the Species (Neo(His name also gives it away...neo[insert ability here]))

The Matrix accounts for 'The Algorithm' as the 'Intelligent Designer' ... the one the Breeds Neo(s)...

Neo...could be equated to people in our own history ... eg. Jesus.

So in effect... the Father (God), of Jesus, can be considered the 'Algorithm' that spawned him.

The 'Algorithm' , is not outside , the Matrix(Universe)... it is a part of it, and is the builder of the universe.

The "Algorithm's" , 'Absoluteness' 'Predictablility' , makes the decision, that in order for the Universe to evolve (contain: smarter packets of information(Humans/Machines)) then it has to set up, 'Nudges' in the matrix, to spawn Neo Evolution.

Hopefully...This backs up some ,claims about the 'Theory Of everything' --not my idea..

The New, Watchowski bible.

This 'Algorithm' ... is BIG FOOT.

[quadrapod]

Why would you move faster than light you would move at the fastest speed that your legs could contract and ignoring the millions of impossibilities in your question your leg would move as quickly as you could moment it in that direction. I think that by looking at ion drives you may find the answer to your question. Ion drives only output a mille Newton or so of thrust but they output this thrust over years allowing them to reach places in deep space by accelerating over the whole course of there flight. However they will never get anywhere near the speed of light because there is resistance from every piece of matter in the universes gravity as well as the drag caused by light and small gas particles higher thrust only makes it accelerate to an equilibrium faster.

[spectrum disorder]

Originally Posted by quadrapod

Why would you move faster than light you would move at the fastest speed that your legs could contract and ignoring the millions of impossibilities in your question your leg would move as quickly as you could moment it in that direction. I think that by looking at ion drives you may find the answer to your question. Ion drives only output a mille Newton or so of thrust but they output this thrust over years allowing them to reach places in deep space by accelerating over the whole course of there flight. However they will never get anywhere near the speed of light because there is resistance from every piece of matter in the universes gravity as well as the drag caused by light and small gas particles higher thrust only makes it accelerate to an equilibrium faster.

Possibly, but never say 'never!'

[sanctus]

Yes quantum teleportation is possible, a prof with his team at my university proved/did it, but it can't be used for supra-luminous information exchange, see any link which explains what this is.