It may just be that the author of the headline is math-challenged, but 4 orders of magnitude would mean 1000x the speed of light. It's still gonna take a while to get from one side of the galaxy to another. Hell, it still would take a long time to travel between stars, but it is more or less doable at that speed, at least for nearby stars, i.e., those within 50 or so light years.
It may just be that the author of the headline is math-challenged, but 4 orders of magnitude would mean 1000x the speed of light. It's still gonna take a while to get from one side of the galaxy to another. Hell, it still would take a long time to travel between stars, but it is more or less doable at that speed, at least for nearby stars, i.e., those within 50 or so light years.At 4Xs the speed of light it will still take 15k years to get from one side of the galaxy to the other.
Well, you almost got it; four orders of magnitude is 10,000 times (in round figures). OneWingedShark puts it as 12 hours from one side of the galaxy to the other. Assuming (counter to quantum theory which this experiment does not claim to disprove) that the actual “speed” isn’t infinite.