Comments on: German physicists have "broken the speed of light"

By: A.B.

A.B. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:38:32 +0000

pls……….why doesnt anyone understand……nothing else other than maybe light can exceed its own speed………………but the truth is even i believe and want some thing to exceed the speed of light………..

but wat the scientist find are…..quite a bit stupid i would say…..

a microwave….itself is a light..a different frequency………..and am not surprised it travels the speed of light….when radio waves can…why cant microwaves….and go back to our basics..light consists of different…frequencies, wavelengths, spectrums……we r bieng stupid proving that……………..light goes at light speed huh………………..

By: dd

dd — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:39:57 +0000

apparntly poo travells faster then the speed of light so go back to the drawing board eintstein

By: ap

ap — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:31:44 +0000

I agree with Qbit; there’s no way for these physicists to measure something so intricate without error.

To Grant: No, I haven’t tried

By: Grant M. White

Grant M. White — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:03:49 +0000

Have you tried bombarding the prisms or a vacuum that the light is going through with very powerful pulsating opposing N or S magnatism in order to create intermited tares in the time space continunuum thus crating pulsating worm holes that would simulate surpassing the speed of light?

By: Qbit

Qbit — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:23:37 +0000

So, if 1 mile = 5,280 ft
186,000 miles per second (Mps) is the speed of light
the two prisms were 3 ft apart

that means it would have to travel more than 27,280,000 inches per second (ips). Isn’t that a very very difficult thing to measure? If the measurement is off by even 1000 ips it wouldn’t be faster than the speed of light. To reach the speed of light is something drastically different than surpassing it.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:06:02 +0000

There were similar announcements few years ago, but this was about causing tip of a light wave to travel faster than light (which is nothing strange, since “tip of a wave” is not a physical object but rather conceptual thing). No information could be transferred faster than c because of these experiments then.
But if I understand, this is something big. They do claim to have transferred quantum information faster than light.
Could it be? I am quite sure that science has reached some tipping point these days.

By: Mayhem

Mayhem — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:29:32 +0000

Space is made of a vacuum.

By: Not a scientist

Not a scientist — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:35:35 +0000

(correction) you’ll swim through water quicker than you’ll swim through molasses.

By: Not a scientist

Not a scientist — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:34:57 +0000

I’m no scientist, but I’d imagine this is just another molasses/water type thing. You’ll swim through molasses quicker than you’ll swim through water, and apparently light can swim through (insert vacuum, element, lack of whatever) quicker than it swims through whatever space is made of.