“Carying this a step further, if they truly “broke the speed of light” then the light arrived before it even left the point of origin. Totally impossible.”
I don’t see why it should be impossible. Might be impossible to measure using light as a measurment medium... but that doesn’t make it impossible.... just unverifiable.
Lets say, for the sake of arguement, that you could make a baseball travel twice the speed of light in a vacum..... and that the baseball would travel from it’s point of origion to a point in space 1 light year distant.
Day 1- Baseball leaves point of origin.
6 Months - Baseball arrives at destination.
1 Year - IMAGE (i.e. light) of baseball leaving the point of origin arrives at destination.
The light didn’t arrive at the destination before it left it’s point of origin.... it arrived before it was DETECTED (at the destination) to have left. HUGE difference..... the former represents a logical paradox, the latter simply represents our limitations of being able to MEASURE a phenominom.
Show me a method to detect that arriving light, and give firm proof that it can be done, and I will accept it. Otherwise, I will wait for real proof.
Yours is one of the best descriptions of this I've ever seen. Too bad it is something reporters are incapable of understanding.