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Scientists in Germany has succefully created a wormhole or as they call it "a quantum tunnel" which allows particles to travel instantly from point A to point B.
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.
Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences. For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3303699/We-have-broken-speed-of-light.html
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wow sounds really cool! this will be the start of worm hole technology! and then finally we can go and explore the universe!
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Hmm this sounds really interesting, do you have more articles on this subject?
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I question the whole wormhole definition though, sounds more like teleportation of sorts... (and for those who wonders, I just copy pasted the whole thing but since I'm not an expert beyond what the Sci-fi i've seen on tv I didn't want to edit it.
@AoN.DimSum no that's it, but if it's true as in they didn't do any measurement error during the experiment we should hear more about it in the futre.
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Published: 12:01AM BST 16 Aug 2007
Probably would have heard more about it if there was anything to it.
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I'm still skeptical, but wow, this could be the future of physics.
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United States7166 Posts
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I'm betting these guys lied, and will never be able to reproduce these results.
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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light
Stopped reading from there
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On October 25 2009 01:14 deconduo wrote:
Published: 12:01AM BST 16 Aug 2007
Probably would have heard more about it if there was anything to it.
LOL
i was getting all excited about this
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this is old news. and it is not really breaking the speed of light
it's like this: imagine you have a train with n wagons, which travels from one station to the other with constant speed v (v could be the speed of light). you measure the position of the train from its center of gravity. and when the train is somewhere halfway it detaches some of it's wagons and thus the center of gravity instantly moves forward. so when the train reaches the destination it would look as if it moved faster than v, because of the change of the center of gravity. a similar thing happens to the light when it undergoes quantum tunneling.
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Two years old, and isn't this more of a loophole in relativity than a violation. It's 'folding' spacetime rather than moving anything faster than light.
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Yeah it was a really nice invention. Now its totally normal for us in germany to travel at the speed of light. Really convenient.
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Long live the autobahn!
Man, I was getting my hopes all up but then it was all crushed by the publishing date 
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mm i read somewhere recently that someone had achieved a similar affect by making a "time lense" as they described it, maybe new scientist online article...
i disapprove of threads like this and the "government announces alien" one....in literally 30 seconds you can go to one of dozens of EXTREMELY high profile conspiracy/paranormal websites and read HOURS worth of material of this nature..... maybe you should try this and realise the 1 or 2 "SHOCKING" articles you've seen recently are part of a enormous mass just a google click away.....
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yes, old, wrong, and quantum tunneling is not a wormhole
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Next time read the date on the article before you post it like it is news.
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On October 25 2009 01:55 betaben wrote:
yes, old, wrong, and quantum tunneling is not a wormhole
fail
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Unfortunate ): I was very hyped until I saw the age of the topic. As others have stated, it would have been more revolutionary and more well-known if it was as fantastic and real as they claim.
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Lol, why is everyone here saying "cool" after taking a dump on the "obama announces aliens" thread.
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Belgium8305 Posts
let's instantly transport this thread to the closed forum
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
CoW, why do you hate science?
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Belgium8305 Posts
oh.. no real reason... *clenches fists as memory unfolds before mind's eye of science killing my wealthy parents in cold blood in an alley after a theatre performance*
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