03-15-2005, 05:05 AM
TaiDaishar,Mar 14 2005, 06:24 PM Wrote:Well, the speed of light ain't that much of an absolute as some scientists claim it to be, it was successfully tested to slow and accelerate the speed of a photon, slowing it down to just above the speed of sound and accelerating it to around 10 times the speed of light (don't take my word on the acceleration, I'm not sure) so that quite ruins the entire thing of impossible to be above the speed of light as the speed of light itself can be modified.
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Hey, I was terrible at physics, so I'm not the best person to comment on this (we miss you, Pete!), but I'm pretty sure that if something had been successfully accelerated past the speed of light, I wouldn't be hearing about it for the first time here. You'd be talking about a radical new look at physics as we know it (at least from what I know about physics, which, like I said, is very little).
Forgive me for not taking you at your word here, but I would want to see some documentation before I would believe something like this.