Stacking the deck: Single photons observed at seemingly faster-than-light speeds

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ^ | Jan 26, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

Outta sight ping.

[maddog55]

I’ve been saying that for years... finally Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute can back me up !!

[ak267]

could this provide an insight to someday producing FTL drives for space vessles?

[GeronL]

fire photon torpedos!!

[BipolarBob]

I took some of the pills to speed up my metabolism but all it did was make me nervous and give me an upset stomach. That faster than light thing never happened to though.

[MHGinTN]

Ah yes, the usual escape clause: ‘seem to’.

[steve86]

There isn’t any thrust involved when the “new” photon comes out of the other end.

[decimon]

I’ve been saying that for years...

Me too.

"So, is it faster than light or not?"

"Yes."

[MortMan]

Those SINGLE protons would be the bachelors who just heard their date say something about settling down... ;-P

[GeronL]

Its gotta be hard to measure, the stopwatch only went to femtoseconds.

[Oceander]

It's always good to read something from the frontiers of good, clean, politics-free science. Thanks for posting!

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[SkyDancer]

Scotty knew that years ago ...

[KevinDavis]

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[ak267]

okay....what about FTL communications?

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

At some point, someone will make a major theoretical breakthrough that will explain the mysterious wave-particle duality of electromagnetic radiation and radically change the understanding of energy, matter, space, time and gravity.

I expect that this theory will be resisted by the establishment much more fiercely than were Einstein’s relativity theories or quantum mechanics theory, because it will call into question the absoluteness of the fixed time scales laid down by Hawking and others based on a maximum speed “c” of light.

[GeronL]

The phone rings before you hit SEND? heh.

Could we talk to ET without the wait times?

[LiberConservative]

“386,000 miles per second. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.”

[decimon]

“386,000 miles per second. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.”

Honest, officer, my pedal was stuck.

[outofsalt]

“386,000 miles per second. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.
Honest, officer, my pedal was stuck.”
Camry or Corrola?