This link even contains a xxx.lanl.gov link to the original paper (which I did NOT read). Also, is that a picture of Greger Huutu?
http://www.dailytech.com/German+Scientis...le8487.htm
But you'll notice from the comment from the University of TORONTO guy that the finding is controversial.
No, it isn't.
This article contains another comment from the University of TORONTO guy:
NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE ISSUE: 18 AUGUST 2007 Wrote:Aephraim Steinberg, a quantum optics expert at the University of Toronto, Canada, doesn't dispute Nimtz and Stahlhofen's results. However, Einstein can rest easy, he says. The photons don't violate relativity: it's just a question of interpretation.
Steinberg explains Nimtz and Stahlhofen's observations by way of analogy with a 20-car bullet train departing Chicago for New York. The stopwatch starts when the centre of the train leaves the station, but the train leaves cars behind at each stop. So when the train arrives in New York, now comprising only two cars, its centre has moved ahead, although the train itself hasn't exceeded its reported speed.
"If you're standing at the two stations, looking at your watch, it seems to you these people have broken the speed limit," Steinberg says. "They've got there faster than they should have, but it just happens that the only ones you see arrive are in the front car. So they had that head start, but they were never travelling especially fast."
I actually read the original paper (it was only one and a half pages), didn't think it was that spectacular.. because I was able to understand most of it
Juha Wrote:No it isn't.
I hope though that they may be able to prove superluminal speeds are possible.
Meanwhile, in related news, there's another guy at the University of TORONTO, John Moffatt, who was the first to propose that the speed of light varies, for which there is now evidence:
http://www.weeklyscientist.com/ws/articl...moffat.htm