Pull Over, Einstein
This must be a joke. Scientists at Middle Tennessee State U (?!?) have sent signals at four times the speed of light. If true, why isn't this all over the news? It's as if we suddenly discovered the Earth was indeed flat.
I'm having a hard time with this distinction, from the article: "While the peak moves faster than light speed, the total energy of the pulse does not. This means Einstein's relativity is preserved...". I understand the difference between the peak energy pulse and the total energy (just different limits on the integral), but I don't understand how the peak energy pulse is treated as a discrete entity, a particle. Guess I better bone up on my physics.
I remember back in the late 70's when Cray machines had hand-crafted, precisely-measured cable sets for every connection, because backplane signal propagation delay became a measurable gating factor for throughput. I thought that was cool, but this is a whole different level.
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