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- Faster than the speed of light? A theoretical physicist blogs. http://www.jimal-khalili.com/blog/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html 4 comments
- Faster-Than-Light Speeds Could Be Why Gamma-Ray Bursts Seem to Go Backwards in Time https://www.sciencealert.com/faster-than-light-speeds-could-be-the-reason-why-gamma-ray-bursts-seem-to-go-backwards-in-time 17 comments science
- Faster than the speed of light? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/agnjst/faster_than_the_speed_of_light/ 35 comments space
- Is the universe expanding faster than the speed of light? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/5xipxh/is_the_universe_expanding_faster_than_the_speed/ 5 comments space
- How would the universe be different if the speed of light was 10 or 100 times faster? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5l6yx7/how_would_the_universe_be_different_if_the_speed/ 3 comments askscience
- Electromagnetic waves transmitted faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2010.12.027 8 comments science
- Thing spotted going faster than speed of light https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1187112/nasa-news-albert-einstein-wrong-theory-relativity-hubble-telescope-messier-87-spt 3 comments science
- The Universe Never Expands Faster Than the Speed of Light http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/10/13/the-universe-never-expands-faster-than-the-speed-of-light 8 comments space
- Computing at the speed of light: Team takes big step toward much faster computers http://phys.org/news/2015-05-team-big-faster.html 7 comments science
- NASA Admits They Are Working To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light http://www.minds.com/blog/view/91850/nasa-admits-they-are-working-to-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light 169 comments space
- Your thoughts on this? Coulomb force faster than the speed of light? http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20130102/GALLATIN01/301020069/Local-man-s-find-could-alter-science 9 comments askscience
- Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted To Light-Speed Trading -- "Wall Street used to bet on companies that build things. Now it just bets on technologies that make faster and faster trades." http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ 71 comments business
- Physicist believes speed of light was faster at the begining of the universe! http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/01/faster-than-the.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Scientists claim to have broken the absolute speed barrier - particles travelling faster than the speed of light. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/e/eu_breaking_light_speed?site=ap&section=home&template=default 4016 comments worldnews
- Faster than the Speed of Light? A New Theory Says, "Yes" http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/01/faster-than-the.html 44 comments space
- Deepest fractal zoom ever made - If you were "actually" traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.... (VID) http://poszidoszi.blogspot.com/2009/02/deepest-fractal-zoom-ever-made.html 5 comments science
- Research Group Proposes Way to Travel Faster than Speed of Light https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/research-group-proposes-way-to-travel-faster-than-speed-of-light/5815680.html 3 comments space
- A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light | Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/computer-processes-faster-speed-light 3 comments technology
- The speed of gravity: faster than light by >10 orders of magnitude? http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp 25 comments askscience
- What's the best way to travel through interstellar and intergalactic space? A space ship that can travel faster than the speed of light, of course! http://news.discovery.com/space/introducing-warpship-dark-energy.html 13 comments science
- What happens to the speed of photons emitted by a moving light source? Do they travel faster than the speed of light, c? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6ll57o/what_happens_to_the_speed_of_photons_emitted_by_a/ 666 comments askscience
- If the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, how is it that we see things that are 46.5 billion light years away? http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/07/the_size_of_the_universe_a_har.php 207 comments science
- Could someone give a simplified explanation for why matter cannot go faster than the speed of light? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4rak4z/could_someone_give_a_simplified_explanation_for/ 45 comments askscience
- "Although nothing can move through space faster than the speed of light, there’s no limit on how fast space itself can expand." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/opinion/16greene.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=dark%20energy&st=cse&scp=4 30 comments science
- Pushing the impossible: Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/04/lightspeed 3 comments reddit.com
- Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light. Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls. https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particles-can-break-the-speed-of-light-20201020/ 16 comments science
- So if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, and since nothing is faster than light in our universe, does that mean that inevitably there is for sure a multiverse? Do other universes in the multiverse have different physics? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/8vvqac/so_if_the_universe_is_expanding_faster_than_the/ 7 comments space
- What would happen if I created a wave motion from lots of small rods going up and down (at subliminal speeds), where the "speed" of the troughs and peaks was faster than the speed of light and then I dropped a small ball in a trough? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6p8whp/what_would_happen_if_i_created_a_wave_motion_from/ 21 comments askscience
- Wi-fi on rays of light: 100 times faster, and never overloaded, speed of 42.8 Gbit/s with a ray of light in an optical wireless network https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/euot-wor031717.php#.wmv03hzlk-c.reddit 55 comments technology
- A particle physicist does some calculations: if high energy neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light, then we would have seen neutrinos from SN1987a 4.14 years before we saw the light. http://neutrinoscience.blogspot.com/2011/09/arriving-fashionable-late-for-party.html 632 comments science
- Light Pulses Change Speed in a Plasma. Interactions between two laser beams in a plasma allow for precise control over the light’s velocity. Scientists show how to adjust the speed of light in a plasma, showing that the peak of the pulse traveled faster than c. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s60 30 comments science
- What happens when a galaxy passes beyond our observable universe? Have we observed such event? Does it get ripped apart because space is moving faster than speed of light? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/aglg64/what_happens_when_a_galaxy_passes_beyond_our/ 27 comments askscience
- Reddit & RobotRollCall's "Why exactly can nothing go faster than the speed of light" featured on Business Insider's Top 10 Things In Tech You Need To Know!! http://e.businessinsider.com/view/211s.pw/c9186506 73 comments askscience
- Duke University researchers have made fluorescent molecules emit photons of light 1,000 times faster than with previous designs — a speed record, and a step toward realizing superfast LEDs for nanophotonic devices, such as telecommunication lasers & as single-photon sources for quantum cryptography http://www.kurzweilai.net/high-speed-fluorescence-for-1000-times-faster-leds 25 comments science
- New driverless car technology could make traffic lights and speeding tickets obsolete - Simulations suggest that the connected vehicles use 19 to 22% less fuel and get to their destinations 26 to 30% faster than human-driven vehicles. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uod-ndc102618.php 10 comments science
- Infrared light speeds up healing by turbocharging our cells: The properties of water are altered by near-infrared light, which could drive the energy-producing mitochondria in our cells to work harder and heal us faster http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27877-infrared-light-speeds-up-healing-by-turbocharging-our-cells.html?cmpid=rss%7Cnsns%7C2012-global%7Conline-news#.vz-zxldecqk 5 comments science
- SETI is now searching for signs of intelligent life by studying Cherenkov Radiation. These flashes of blue light occur when gamma rays transfer energy to particles that travel faster than the speed of light through air, but slower than the speed of light in a vacuum, causing an “optical sonic boom” https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/listening-for-aliens-with-laser-light 198 comments space
- Blasts that create gamma-ray bursts may actually exceed the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds, but do so without violating Einstein's theory of relativity because they only move faster than light does through the jet medium, not faster than light through vacuum. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3bdf 6 comments science
- A wireless network that uses reflected infrared light instead of radio waves has transmitted data through the air at a speed of one gigabit per second--six to 14 times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi network http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/24522/? 52 comments technology
- Astrophysicists showed that blasts that create gamma-ray bursts may actually exceed the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds, but do so without violating Einstein’s theory of relativity because they only move faster than light does through the jet medium, not faster than light through a vacuum. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3bdf 140 comments science