Scientists Make Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light!

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Scientist John Singleton insists that Albert Einstein wouldn't be mad at him, even though at first blush Singleton appears to have twisted the famous physicist's theories about light into a pretzel.

Most people think Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but that's not really the case, Singleton said.

Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light — but phenomenon like radio waves? That's a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.

Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.

The polarization synchrotron combines the waves with a rapidly spinning magnetic field, and the result could explain why pulsars — which are super-dense spinning stars that are a subclass of neutron stars — emit such powerful signals, a phenomenon that has baffled many scientists, Singleton said.

"Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radio waves in pulses, but what we don't know is why these pulses are so bright or why they travel such long distances," Singleton said. "What we think is these are transmitting the same way our machine does."

And beyond explaining what has been a bit of a mystery to the astronomical community, Singleton's discovery could have wide-ranging technological impacts in areas such as medicine and communications, he said.

"Because nobody's really thought about things that travel faster than light before, this is a wide-open technological field," Singleton said.

One possible use for the resulting speedy radio waves — which are packed into a very powerful wave the size of a pencil point — could be the creation of a new generation of cell phones that communicate directly to satellites, rather than transmitting through relay towers as they now do.

Those phones would have more reliable service and would also be more difficult for hackers to intercept, Singleton said.

Another application could be in very targeted chemotherapy, where a patient takes the drugs, and the radio waves are used to activate them very specifically in the area around a tumor, he said.

If Einstein were still alive, he probably wouldn't be all that surprised by the discovery, Perez said, even if it does seem on the surface to conflict with some of his theories.

"He might have thought, 'why did this take so long,' " Perez said.
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This could revolutionise things like the internet and communicating between shuttles in space and so on.
 
Makes no sense, radio waves are part of the EM spectrum and so are photons, which have momentum and thus cannot travel faster than light.

Or am I missing something?
 
Radio Waves = light = EM radiation.

Fail.

*edit* And a serious source for such scientific 'breakthroughs' would be a reputable scientific journal. Not a couple of internetting articles written by people who failed 7th grade science classes.
 
Erm. CERN have experienced this in their LHC... i stood next to the detectors that detect the radiation given off, they're bloody huge!
 
leaskovski said:
LOL!! Teki... again!!!! I litterly saw this on ATS about 4 hours ago! LOL

Front page, top....
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/
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I am only postulating, since I have no direct experience with being converted into a radio signal and beamed across space. I would expect that while you are in this form, you would be "stateless", meaning that you cease to progress through time in your physical form. What your spiritual form or energy form experiences is open for speculation.
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By this point I hope people realize that 99.9% of what mainstream cosmologists are telling you is a complete joke.

They have invented themselves a new religion to explain the cosmos where by only the gifted elite minds of quantum physicists can explain it.
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There is no light speed barrier.

What we see as a light barrier is the delay it takes for the "aether" to propagate the light wave function. There is no speed limit on matter as scientists claim. Just as an object can travel faster than sound, so too can an object travel faster than light, only instead of not being able to hear it from the front, we would not be able to see it from the front.

While I'm not particularly religious, I find the notion of the universe being so incomprehensibly huge without an efficient way to travel about it to be highly unlikely.
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ahh abovetopsecrets comments are always lolworthy
 
All of that guff and then he/she drops in a semi-sensible bomb at the end:
"I find the notion of the universe being so incomprehensibly huge without an efficient way to travel about it to be highly unlikely."

Indeed.
 
Surely theres nothing to prevent you travelling faster than light... providing you can reduce your mass below that of electro magnetic particles?
 
fornowagain said:
Seems the 'polarization synchrotron' has been around awhile.

2004
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19957
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Sagan used it in his book "Contact" in 1985. It's not exactly faster than light, but it is a way of reading 3 forms of information from a particle at the same time, essentially providing faster than light communication.

BTW, this didn't come up in the movie, so don't bother.
 
growse said:
Radio Waves = light = EM radiation.

Fail.

*edit* And a serious source for such scientific 'breakthroughs' would be a reputable scientific journal. Not a couple of internetting articles written by people who failed 7th grade science classes.
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THe speed of light is NOT the speed of light, it's a constant.
 
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