Einstein’s theory disproved?

[suchandra]

German experts detect particles faster than light

 

newKerala.com – August 27, 2007

http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=56254

Hamburg, Aug 27: Two German physicists from the University of Koblenz claim to have done the impossible by finding photons that have broken the speed of light.

 

If their claims are confirmed, they will have proved wrong Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which requires an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

 

However, Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen say they have possibly breached a key tenet of that theory.

 

They 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 from a few millimetres to up to one metre apart.

 

 

When the prisms were placed together, photons fired at one edge passed straight through them, as expected.

 

After they were moved apart, most of the photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector. But a few photons appeared to "tunnel" through the gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.

 

Although these photons had travelled further, they arrived at their detector at exactly the same time as the reflected photons. In effect, they had travelled faster than light.

 

Gunter Nimtz, one of the physicists from the University of Koblenz, told New Scientist magazine: "This is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

 

The duo said being able to travel faster than light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.

 

For instance, an astronaut moving faster than light would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving, they said.

 

The scientists said they were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws. <!-- google_ad_section_end --> --- IANS

[theist]

 

The scientists said they were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.<!-- google_ad_section_end --> --

 

Uh oh. Here we go. The new goal will be to break down the human form into sub-atomic particles and then send it tunneling to God knows where and to then reconstitute it. Another flim flam scheme to soak the taxpayers out of trillions USD in the making.

 

And if they succeed they will have only succeeded in tunneling deeper into maya.

[suchandra]

 

Uh oh. Here we go. The new goal will be to break down the human form into sub-atomic particles and then send it tunneling to God knows where and to then reconstitute it. Another flim flam scheme to soak the taxpayers out of trillions USD in the making.

 

And if they succeed they will have only succeeded in tunneling deeper into maya.

 

"bizarre consequences": a fallen soul from the spiritual world moving faster than light would theoretically arrive at the destination of taking shelter at Krishna's Lotusfeet before leaving.

 

Sounds quite practical - no more material world.

[Kulapavana]

perhaps it is not travelling faster than light but moving through the "subspace" (abhvam in Rig Veda) where all the dimensions (worlds) are suspended. Rishis and yogis were able to travel like that in previous yugas. travelling through subspace is something like taking a shortcut through the ordinary space.

[theist]

 

"bizarre consequences": a fallen soul from the spiritual world moving faster than light would theoretically arrive at the destination of taking shelter at Krishna's Lotusfeet before leaving.

 

Sounds quite practical - no more material world.

 

Yeah but as we were discussing on another thread this could only take us to the pradhan at best. No way to cross the river without Krsna's grace.

[theist]

 

perhaps it is not travelling faster than light but moving through the "subspace" (abhvam in Rig Veda) where all the dimensions (worlds) are suspended. Rishis and yogis were able to travel like that in previous yugas. travelling through subspace is something like taking a shortcut through the ordinary space.

 

Whoa!

[sanatan]

More Star Trek, here we come.

[krsna]

 

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“…physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality….”

 

 

According to :

Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter.

 

“It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,” Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.

 

The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.

 

“Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams, but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter,” Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained.

 

“Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement,” he added.

 

 

[Nrsinghadev]

Whenever I read something like this, I always think of these verses from the Gita:

 

BG 16.7: Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them.

BG 16.8: They say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust.

BG 16.9: Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.

BG 16.10: Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.

[suchandra]

 

Whenever I read something like this, I always think of these verses from the Gita:

 

BG 16.7: Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them.

BG 16.8: They say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust.

BG 16.9: Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.

BG 16.10: Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.

 

People are bewildered - but we shouldnt give up hope!

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