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We don’t (yet) have any way to test this, but University of Adelaide applied mathematicians are suggesting that an extended version of Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity also holds true for velocities beyond lightspeed. One of the main predictions of Special Relativity is that the speed of light is treated as an absolute …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Relativity....Whatever...

    I'm off to ask the Zeta Reticullans (eben) what they think....

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    1. badmonkey
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      Re: Relativity....Whatever...

      Good for you. I shall expect your results above (before) this one. Don't cheat by looking at your own message.

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  2. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Happy

    Wot I Fink

    Without a shadow of doubt LightSpeed are the absolute limit with their continued attempts to game the system and demand everyone else pays for the privilege.

    Oh, wait. Is that not what we're talking about?

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  3. TRussert

    There already is something that travels faster then the speed of light otherwise Quantum Entanglement would not be possible.

    Interesting eBook about how these tie in with consciousness as well if anyone is interested. www.TheRealityCode.com.

    For the world we experience via our physical senses, the speed of light is a absolute limit, but for the reality that is the Quantum, atomic, and possibly even the molecular foundation of our Universe, speed is instantaneous.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    "Light speed" is not one word.

    When writing an article, do try to get the spelling of the item your article discusses correct.

    It's "light speed", not "lightspeed".

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  5. Dick Pountain

    GET OVER IT!

    Jesus - people still whingeing about not being able to travel faster than light? In a couple of decades we're more likely to be back riding donkeys than travelling to Alpha Centauri.

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  6. Bob Armstrong

    V = D % T ; and there are no independent measures of D & T

    The "speed" of light is not a speed .

    Because there is no measure of time or distance independent of it . Thus all measures are ratios , hence Lorentz geometry .

    It's simpler to just make c = 1 , then all other measurements are seen as simply ratios .

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  7. paul 194
    Linux

    if you travel faster than the speed of light you travel back in time,

    so if a bullet left the gun at 13:02 and went back in time then it get to the target at 13:00.

    to a observer it appers that it left the target at 13:00 and went in to the gun at 13:02.

    it would appear to be traveling slowly into the gun (backward) this might be happening all around use now..

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  8. ee_cc
    Paris Hilton

    what's the point?

    What's the point in linking to the Royal Society's article? I mean, the subscription is a bl**p'n 1,6 k€ and the article itself is 26€, only for 1 month, ah the misery!

    Hardly convenient. And people wonder about the mounting ignorance of the populace... a peek at Paris usually come for free

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  9. JeffyPooh
    Pint

    Which infinity?

    Is that the infinity(0) meters per second where infinity is the number of integers on the number line, or is the infinitely faster infinity(1) meters per second where this infinity is the number of points on a line?

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    1. Vladimir Plouzhnikov
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      Re: Which infinity?

      Your gathering of infinities serves very little purpose. There can be only One.

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