Einstein is not anymore the ONE starting TODAY!

WOW, a rather "interesting" little bit of news
to COME OUT, TODAY on the 17th....


Scientists break

speed of light

in lab test

August 17, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Courier-Mail
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22255966-2,00.html

IT was supposed to be the one speed limit you could not break.

But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of
travel faster than the speed of light.

The feat contradicts one of the key tenets
of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity -
that nothing, under any circumstances,
can move faster than
300,000km a second,
or the speed of light.

Travelling faster than light also, in theory, turns back time.

According to conventional physics, a person moving beyond light
speed would arrive at his destination before leaving.

But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome
its own speed limit using the phenomenon of quantum tunnelling.

Their experiments focused on the travel of microwave photons -
energetic packets of light - through two prisms.

When the prisms were moved apart, most photons reflected off
the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector.

But a few appeared to "tunnel" through a gap separating them as if
the prisms were still held together.

Although these photons had travelled a longer distance, they arrived
at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons.

This suggests the transit between the two prisms
was faster than the speed of light.

Dr Gunter Nimtz, of the University of Koblenz, told the magazine
New Scientist:
"For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

The Daily Mail, in The Courier-Mail