[MichaelP]

Quantum teleportation perhaps?

Mike

[Danae]

Hum.... to be honest it smells like “Cold Fusion” all over again. I heard Linus Pauling speak on that Matter at Oregon State University. I wonder what he would say now? Most likely, to what decimal degree was the TIME measured to. Because 1) 3 feet is not real far apart, and 2) More than likely there IS a time lag, they were simply not capable of measuring. Get those crystals a MILE apart and then we will have some idea of the accuracy of their claim. Until they can do this over a distance, one great enough to actually measure the difference with currently existing measuring equipment. The closer one gets to the speed of light the more infinitely short the time period becomes, it may LOOK like 0, but it isn’t. Any more than they can calculate the EXACT value of Pi.

[Dajjal]

BTTT

[kbennkc]

But can they fix the check engine light on my BMW ? NOOOO!

[OrioleFan]

So Obama can correct himself before he puts his foot in his mouth on foreign policy. Or Hillary can correct herself before she claimed she had never advocated socialized medicine. Or Edwards would never need another haircut - think of the money he will save. Wow.

[fedupjohn]

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 per second.

If I'm not mistaken E=MC2 solved for C equated to mass becoming infinite, not energy.

[KevinDavis]

Should I back my bags and hop aboard a ship to Alpha Centauri????

[Reaganesque]

Why did I stop you? I clocked you doing 250,000 miles per second in a 186,000 mile per second zone, that's why, Einstein!

[Quix]

Hmmmm . . .

So . . . the speed of light has been broken.

Well!

I’m sure her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous . . . Shrillery de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Stalin would be happy to try and fix it. She’d only need a few $Triollion to get started. . . . for the children, of course.

= = =

Someone ought to ask her a question along those lines in an intense moment at a question and answer session. We might be able to get her to say something really stupid.

[Smokin' Joe]

For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

And get back just as fast?

Poor schmuck would probably get paid by the hour, too...

[SubGeniusX]

They've past ludicris speed and, gone straight to plaid!

[aruanan]

A pair of German physicists claim 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 per second.

What they and other have claimed to do with entangled photons is not breaking the speed of light. No thing is being propelled at more than 186,000 miles per second. As far as the special relativity is concerned, it really cannot prohibit the use of such a phenomenon for communication since communication is not a thing but a social construct, a mutually agreed upon set of expectations of what a particular symbology is meant to convey. But nothing subject to light speed restrictions is actually being physically conveyed across space or time.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) different research, related:

Scientists Mess with the Speed of Light (breaking the speed limit, sort of)
pure energy systems | 19 aug 05 | Ker Than
Posted on 08/24/2005 9:02:52 PM EDT by Arkie2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470073/posts