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Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]>
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Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:41:43 -0400
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Jim Phillips wrote:
>
> I found this interesting news story:
>
> Clarifying Einstein's rules of the road
>
> Physicists clear up misconceptions about 'faster than light' transmission
>
> By Alan Boyle
> MSNBC
>
> July 19 -  Can anything break the cosmic speed limit of 186,000 miles per
> second? For weeks, scientific circles have been buzzing about an experiment
> that pulsed light through a special chamber so fast that it left the
> apparatus before it fully entered it. Now the research has been released at
> last, and the experimenters say their findings contradict no laws of
> physics - just the misconceptions people have about them.
>
Well I guess it's all in the interpretation?

Science seems to keep "refining" theories that allow us to do some
amazing
things.  The absolute limits seems to keep disappearing.

Nick D.

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