German scientists claim to have broken speed of light
By Darren Murph 
posted August 16th 2007 11:02PM
posted August 16th 2007 11:02PM
We're almost terrified to hear what the physicists in the crowd have to say about this one, but a duo of German scientists have reportedly broken the speed of light. To do so, the two "set up an experiment in which microwave photons, energetic packets of light, appeared to travel instantaneously between two prisms forming the halves of a cube placed a meter apart." According to them, they were able to force light to overcome its own speed limit by utilizing a "strange phenomenon known as quantum tunneling." Dr. Gunter Nimtz was even quoted as saying that for the time being, it was the "only violation of special relativity that he knew of," and while it does indeed sound (way) too good to be true, we'll step aside and let the experts battle it out.[Via Telegraph, thanks Ian]
UPDATE: As predicted, there's a high probability that these claims aren't exactly, shall we say, infallibly correct -- but at least someone's giving it a go, eh?
Near light speed travel is possible.
X / 2 = (c2 / g) [cosh (0.5 g T / c) – 1]
T = (2 c / g) cosh–1 (1 + 0.5 g X / c2)
http://nlspropulsion.net/default.aspx
Isn't it just that everything is relative to its medium/enviroment and that the speed of light is the only thing that is constant. That's how I have understood it as.
Creating a new medium for which light travels faster than the medium that we are in doesn't necessarily mean that they have broken the speed of light. It just means that they've found a new medium where light travels faster than ours.
Well If you look at Big Bang, it's predicted that it Expanded FASTER then the speed of light in the begining.
So thats must mean the materia moved faster then the "light" ???
Not that i have read the articel yet but i hade fun att the comment's and will post again when i have read :P
In theroy, you could be in the Past, Presant and Future at the same time. Correct me if im wrong.....