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Physicists Broke The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma
Science Alert ^ | 02 September 2022 | By MIKE MCRAE

Posted on 09/02/2022 8:13:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/02/2022 8:13:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This could lead to sharks with laser beams that travel faster than the speed of light!


2 posted on 09/02/2022 8:18:44 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Red Badger
dilithium crystals....
3 posted on 09/02/2022 8:18:46 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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dilithium crystals....

Nope, sorry, you can't have 'em. We need the lithium for Tesla car batteries...

4 posted on 09/02/2022 8:20:54 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like how my wife got pregnant with our second one.


5 posted on 09/02/2022 8:22:12 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: Red Badger

It’s all about sending messages through time, telling your old man to bet a parlay on the ‘69 Jets and the ‘69 Mets.


6 posted on 09/02/2022 8:22:31 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Yo-Yo

In after only three stupid jokes.


7 posted on 09/02/2022 8:22:37 AM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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In after only three five stupid jokes.
8 posted on 09/02/2022 8:24:07 AM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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You’re such a ray of sunshine.


9 posted on 09/02/2022 8:43:18 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: wardamneagle

“I’m given her she got Captain”

Scotty


10 posted on 09/02/2022 8:55:23 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

Is the speed of light constant? What about entropy?


11 posted on 09/02/2022 9:02:39 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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The ‘speed of light’ is always ‘the speed of light’....................


12 posted on 09/02/2022 9:07:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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The ‘speed of light’ is always ‘the speed of light’....................

We do not know if that is true.

It is a "uniformity" assumption.

The Webb telescope is giving data which may put that assumption in question.

13 posted on 09/02/2022 9:20:44 AM PDT by marktwain
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All of a sudden I feel light-headed.


14 posted on 09/02/2022 10:04:15 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (t)
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It is a "uniformity" assumption.

Indeed. I'm hoping we can get more info to eventually answer that question

15 posted on 09/02/2022 10:30:20 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Red Badger

Democrats spend money at relativistic speeds. It’s gone before it’s even printed.


16 posted on 09/02/2022 11:54:36 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: TexasGator

more to come so hang on.

I was going to do one on cops and speed limits, etc. but it was going to be to corny even for me.


17 posted on 09/02/2022 1:36:28 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOWhx) )
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To: Red Badger

JULY 2000:

Scientists have apparently broken the universe’s speed limit.

For generations, physicists believed there is nothing faster than light moving through a vacuum — a speed of 186,000 miles per second.

But in an experiment in Princeton, N.J., physicists sent a pulse of laser light through cesium vapor so quickly that it left the chamber before it had even finished entering.


18 posted on 09/02/2022 1:49:41 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: marktwain

That was q typical Badger bad joke ...


19 posted on 09/02/2022 1:52:42 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: \/\/ayne
"Is the speed of light constant?"

No.


20 posted on 09/02/2022 1:57:07 PM PDT by TexasGator
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