Warp speed..Beam me up Scotty...Double time it.
Oh, you already did?
An excerpt from a radio newsline report rec'd today.
NEWSLINE 1195 - JULY 7, 2000
This is Newsline report number 1195 with a release date of Friday, July
7th, 2000 to follow -------
"And finally, has Star-Trek come true? Can warp speeds be achieved? Warp
speeds exceed the speed of light. Science now says it has happened.
Q-News GraHam Kemp, VK4BB, has the details:
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Particle physicists have shown that light pulses can be accelerated to up
to 300 times their normal velocity of 186,000 miles per second. And the
implications, like the speed, are mind-boggling.
On one interpretation, light will arrive at its destination almost before
it has started its journey. In effect, it is leaping forward in time.
Exact details of the findings remain confidential because they have been
submitted to Nature, the international scientific journal, for review prior
to possible publication.
The research is already causing controversy among physicists. What bothers
them is that if light could travel forward in time it could carry
information. This would breach one of the basic principles in physics --
causality, which says that a cause must come before an effect.
It would also shatter Einstein's theory of relativity since it depends in
part on the speed of light being unbreachable."
>For Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB of Q-News Australia |
