Re: breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com

From: Scott Stephens (scottxs_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:49:17 -0600

~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

> I just read that article and decided to find more information on google
> and found this group... I am 14 years old

Hmmmm, fresh meat =)

I was thinking and figured that the only thing
> that would ever be able to travel beyond the speed of light without
> being destroyed is light itself.

You aren't on the same track as I am. Light (photons) are a
soliton-phenomena in a soliton-conducting quantum foam.

  Then today I read about that
> experiment, and it supports what I thought. I do think it is possible
> for light to travel faster than its own speed,

My understanding is,

1. You play a cheap trick regarding phase velocity (which is what I
suspect is in your mind)

2. You modify the conducting (quantum foam, quantum-vacuum) medium. You
must be God.

3. I don't understand Nature as it is, so something else is possible.

> If you think about it enough, you realize there cannot be a set speed
> that nothing can travel beyond

You are thinking of matter and energy "particles" in vacuum. My
understanding is quite a bit different. The quantum vacuum is *every
possibility* occurring (multiple-parallel universes, or Feynman's "Sum
of all Paths" un-yet realized). BUT initial conditions at the big bang
is progressively detecting (through time at light-speedm by scattering
"observations") crystallizing definite realities out of infinite
possibilities inherent in the quantum vacuum. 

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