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  • Faster-than-light radio waves could revolutionize computer industries - New Tech Gadgets &Electronic Devices | Geek.com

    From the page: "Scientists have been plagued by Einstein's theories which state nothing can travel faster than light. But over the past decade or so, we have seen a new branch of physics theorized, one which might give Einstein cause for pause. It's called Superluminal... more

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  • Reviewed by lordkingmaker on Jul 10, 9:52pm

    total bs but i lol'd so hard at "It is unknown if these signals can be used to change the past." in the link

  • Rated by Dmytry on Jul 09, 7:35am

    The most severe problem of modern science is that funding sources can no longer distinguish genuine research from bullshit. Furthermore, bullshit is specifically designed for generation of investments and is thus often more successful than genuine research. Bullshit always includes allegation of scientific dogmas, promise of something extraordinary and important (like perpetual motion), and often relies on reader visualizing fields or other highly non-everyday things incorrectly. Naturally, our visualization evolved for visualizing motion of things like mammoths and spears, and fails horribly on various things you don't see, such as magnetic fields. That's why rotating magnetic fields, magnetic shields, and similar things are particularly common in various fake science stories; in this BS you're supposed to imagine whirlpool in which some waves are carried along at faster than regular wave speed; that makes pretty image in the head, but makes absolutely no sense physically (at such speeds, velocities do not add up the same way them do for thrown spear and mammoth). Nowadays not many people believe in possibility of perpetual motion devices, but we have a lot of other stuff like low temperature fusion, 'plastic fantastic' high-temperature superconductors, and it seems, faster than light communication.

  • Rated by TheSupremeCourt on Jul 06, 3:23pm

    From the page: "If you take a laser and shine it on the moon and swing it rather gently, for example, the spot on the moon travels faster than the speed of light." No, no it doesn't.

  • Rated by kuanyin333 on Jul 03, 11:52pm

    Faster than light waves? These could revolutionize the world.

  • Rated by kevinryanmooney on Jul 02, 1:10pm

    god. i keep seeing this article popping up in various places. superluminal speeds are just not possible. if you take a laser moving at the speed of light and point it at the moon, the dot on the moon will appear to move faster than the speed of light, but the dot does not count as a "something" that is moving, because it is not transmitting information from one spot on the moon to another spot on the moon. the "somethings" that are traveling are the light particles moving from the laser to the moon, which are traveling at the speed of light.

  • Rated by wonmean on Jul 02, 9:51am

    Same damn article in different guises. Come on people. Did no one take Physics 101 at their college? Superluminal ANYTHING is impossible at the moment. I've seen one photo of this apparatus. I've read one incomprehensible explanation of this superluminal phenomenon. If this is such a big thing, why am I not finding this in Science?

  • Rated by Rick2000 on Jul 02, 9:43am

    What a fucktard. That's NOT what Einstein said.

  • Rated by Jackson889 on Jul 02, 8:15am

    take THAT eienstien

  • Rated by Sabin548 on Jul 02, 7:33am

    Interesting, faster than light travel. I never thought it possible, but then again Newton believed in action at distance, and that was proven wrong. Einstein's theory still remains, IMO, the basis of what seems to be an even newer version of relativity, as described by these experiments.

  • Rated by insyen on Jul 02, 4:42am

    Scientists have been plagued by Einsteins theories which state nothing can travel faster than light. But over the past decade or so, we have seen a new branch of physics theorized, one which might give Einstein cause for pause. Its called Superluminal Electromagnetic Field / Wave Propagation, which is basically a form of faster than light relativity. Experiments have been conducted by several scientists which involve light and radio sources traveling at speeds well in excess of the speed of light. Seem possible? Earlier this year, a physicist called John Singleton created an application of this theory which he believes could greatly advance semiconductors. Called a polarization synchrotron, the device combines radio waves with a rapidly spinning magnetic field. The effect is described as abusing the radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.