Spooky Physics: Signals Seem to Travel Faster Than Light

LiveScience ^ | Aug 13, 2008 | Charles Q. Choi

[cdbull23]

Nah, it’s just Michael Phelps.

[Islander7]

“....Nah, it’s just Michael Phelps....”

All the talking heads are freaking out about his diet!

Faster than the speed of light, eh? The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know.

[NonValueAdded]

For example, objects can sometimes be said to ... spin in opposite directions simultaneously.

Ah, the Kerry Effect!

[HamiltonJay]

The guy probably burns 10,000 calories a day or more... he can pretty much eat whatever he wants... You get that active you can to.. what’s there to freak out about?

[WOBBLY BOB]

faster than Schmucky Schumer to a TV camera?

[RJL]

Strange events that Einstein himself called "spooky" might happen at least 10,000 times the speed of light, according to the latest attempt to understand them.

I've long wondered if one day we would look back at the speed of light as we now look back at breaking the speed of sound "barrier".

[decimon]

Ah, the Kerry Effect!

Quantum Kerry? Or is he so entangled with Teddy that they act the same no matter how far apart?

[Islander7]

"...Ah, the Kerry Effect!..."

Maybe the HBEC effect (High blood-ethanol content).

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Spaceship Could Fly Faster Than Light!

Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.

We're talking about the very distant future, of course.

The idea involves manipulating dark energy � the mysterious force behind the universe's ongoing expansion � to propel a spaceship forward without breaking the laws of physics.

"Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Gerald Cleaver, a physicist at Baylor University. "The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the speed of light."

In theory, the universe grew faster than the speed of light for a very short time after the Big Bang, driven by the dark energy that represents about 74 percent of the total mass-energy budget in the universe. Dark matter constitutes 22 percent of the budget, and normal matter (stars, planets and everything you see) makes up the remaining 4 percent or so.

Strange as it sounds, current evidence supports the notion that the fabric of space-time can expand faster than the speed of light, because the reality in which light travels is itself expanding.

[NormsRevenge]

I’m still working on absorbing the string theory thingy..

very cool stuff, at any factor level.

[starlifter]

Obviously using a flux capacitor...

[decimon]

faster than Schmucky Schumer to a TV camera?

Nah, Chucky is limited to New York minutes.

[OrioleFan]

Ahh those incredible edible eggs..

[rednesss]

"Quantum Kerry? Or is he so entangled with Teddy that they act the same no matter how far apart?"

But if you put Kerry and Teddy into a steamer trunk, with a timer and a cyanide capsule and closed the lid, are they alive or dead??? And can we really carry out this though experiment for real and let the timer go "ding"????? Please?????

[rednesss]

"For example, objects can sometimes be said to ... spin in opposite directions simultaneously."

"Ah, the Kerry Effect!"

I just stopped laughing. That is some funny stuff.

[ETL]

Fascinating subject this “non-locality”, “spooky action at a distance”, “EPR”, business. It’s actually an aspect of quantum mechanics manifesting itself on the large scale. Thanks for posting.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

[Secret Agent Man]

I thought it was the “Obama Phenomena” - or is that a corrolary to the Kerry Effect?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

and you didn’t ping him?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Cool, but what happens when a speck of space lint is between you and your destination? And something larger?

A collision at light speed woould be a beetch!