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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml

'We have broken speed of light'

 

 

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

 

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

 

However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory.

 

The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

 

Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.

 

For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

 

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

 

Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

 

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what

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i knew it...

 

 

But by this logic, our current "reality" could be nothing more than a simulation produced by information entities.

"Of course." Moravec shrugs and waves his hand as if the idea is too obvious. "In fact, the robots will re-create us any number of times, whereas the original version of our world exists, at most, only once. Therefore, statistically speaking, it's much more likely we're living in a vast simulation than in the original version. To me, the whole concept of reality is rather absurd. But while you're inside the scenario, you can't help but play by the rules. So we might as well pretend this is real - even though the chance things are as they seem is essentially negligible."

 

And so, according to Hans Moravec, the human race is almost certainly extinct, while the world around us is just an advanced version of SimCity.

 

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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/15/hans_moravec_on_livi.html

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Colonel Sandurz: Prepair ship for light speed.

Dark Helmet: No, no, no. Light speed is too slow.

Colonel Sandurz: Light speed is too slow?

Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have go right to... ludicrous speed.

 

omg they've gone plaid!

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you're travelling faster than fucking light, which is like the fastest shit ever. if you're travelling that fast, you could "arrive" where you're going before the light reflecting off of your body(where you started) reaches the eyes of whoever happened to be around when you "left". giving the illusion that you are still there, even for an instant, when you are not

 

dang.

 

i'd say the key word here is "claim"

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  • 2 weeks later...

(Aug. 24) - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's a giant expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.

 

 

i'm making this "the crazy shit out there that channel zero doesn't care about thread"

 

 

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what

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(Aug. 24) - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's a giant expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.

 

 

i'm making this "the crazy shit out there that channel zero doesn't care about thread"

 

 

but

 

 

 

what

the

motherfucking

blood clot lot.

 

the answer...

 

turn it into americas garbage dump... well have it filled in no time.

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I don't think it's a big leap to think that our theories of earth and especially the universe might be incorrect. 500 years ago it was commonly thought that the earth was flat. Undoubtedly people 500 years from now will laugh at our ideas of space.

 

Making assumptions about space travel while having only been as far as the moon is like standing on your front step and deciding that you can't go anywhere because it's snowing and you don't have a shovel to get your car out.

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