so what travels faster than the speed of light?....i didnt think we had discovered anything that travels faster but there is one thing that does, so what is it?

The smell of farts.

Oprah when she spots the buffet table

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Enigmoid said:

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nice one....there is a serious answer to this question though and the first correct answer i get on this thread wins a free drink and a dance with me at the edinburgh prince night out in august ...if you are male, i am sure camille will offer her services to you that night...(dancing that is )
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time? thought? expanding/contracting universe? tachyons?

Raymond Y. Chiao is professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He replies: "Briefly, tachyons are theoretically postulated particles that travel faster than light and have 'imaginary' masses. . . . "The name 'tachyon' (from the Greek 'tachys,' meaning swift) was coined by the late Gerald Feinberg of Columbia University. Tachyons have never been found in experiments as real particles traveling through the vacuum, but we predict theoretically that tachyon-like objects exist as faster-than-light 'quasiparticles' moving through laser-like media. (That is, they exist as particle-like excitations, similar to other quasiparticles called phonons and polaritons that are found in solids. 'Laser-like media' is a technical term referring to those media that have inverted atomic populations, the conditions prevailing inside a laser.)

"We are beginning an experiment at Berkeley to detect tachyon-like quasiparticles. There are strong scientific reasons to believe that such quasiparticles really exist, because Maxwell's equations, when coupled to inverted atomic media, lead inexorably to tachyon-like solutions.

"Quantum optical effects can produce a different kind of 'faster than light' effect (see "Faster than light?" by R. Y. Chiao, P. G. Kwiat, and A. M. Steinberg in Scientific American, August 1993). There are actually two different kinds of 'faster-than-light' effects that we have found in quantum optics experiments. (The tachyon-like quasiparticle in inverted media described above is yet a third kind of faster-than-light effect.)

"First, we have discovered that photons which tunnel through a quantum barrier can apparently travel faster than light (see "Measurement of the Single-Photon Tunneling Time" by A. M. Steinberg, P. G. Kwiat, and R. Y. Chiao, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 71, page 708; 1993). Because of the uncertainty principle, the photon has a small but very real chance of appearing suddenly on the far side of the barrier, through a quantum effect (the 'tunnel effect') which would seem impossible according to classical physics. The tunnel effect is so fast that it seems to occur faster than light.


"Second, we have found an effect related to the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen phenomenon, in which two distantly separated photons can apparently influence one anothers' behaviors at two distantly separated detectors (see "High-Visibility Interference in a Bell-Inequality Experiment for Energy and Time," by P. G. Kwiat, A. M. Steinberg, and R. Y. Chiao, Physical Review A, Vol. 47, page R2472; 1993). This effect was first predicted theoretically by Prof. J. D. Franson of Johns Hopkins University. We have found experimentally that twin photons emitted from a common source (a down-conversion crystal) behave in a correlated fashion when they arrive at two distant interferometers. This phenomenon can be described as a 'faster-than-light influence' of one photon upon its twin. Because of the intrinsic randomness of quantum phenomena, however, one cannot control whether a given photon tunnels or not, nor can one control whether a given photon is transmitted or not at the final beam splitter. Hence it is impossible to send true signals in faster-than-light communications.
"I refer interested readers to our paper 'Tachyonlike Excitations in Inverted Two-Level Media' by R. Y. Chiao, A. E. Kozhekin, and G. Kurizki, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 77, page 1254; 1996, and references therein.


http://www.sciam.com/aske...9EC588F2D7

blackbob said:

My foot, when its kicking 2the9s ass.

My photoshop skills, when I'm being challenged

XxAxX said:

Thank you, Commander Data.

madonna of course

Chico319 said:

Love that song ..

I would say bad news

Do I win the prize?

soulyacolia said:

or rumours

dont mind me....i am just warming up some of my dance moves for the winner
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rumors?

AsianBomb777 said:

Seconds never are winner, are they?

THe real gay guy WON!

HamsterHuey said:

He said "rumours"
I said "rumors"

AsianBomb777 said:

Well, you obviously cannot spell, so he wins double points.

Superman, of course!

My daughter at Chuck E Cheese!!!

heyduckie said:

Especially if the is a byproduct of and/or .

The speed of gravity.



And a comedic answer...

How to Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light

In a startling breakthrough, two undergraduate students at U.C. Santa Cruz have discovered a foolproof method for traveling faster than the speed of light. Their company, SpeedOfLight.com, has received $100 million in venture capital funding and plans to begin its first commercial flights in June 2001. Here's how to reserve your ticket.


Steps:
1.
Act fast if you want to be a part of history. Only 300 tickets will be available for the first flight.

2.
Visit SpeedOfLight.com for information about the physics behind this new discovery. Read articles and chat with astrophysicists about the implications.

3.
Call (415) 767-2676 to request an application.

4.
Include your nonrefundable check for $50,000 (or $100,000 if you wish to fly business class).

5.
Pack a high-quality camera, a week's worth of clothes (plan on cool temperatures) and a few tanks of oxygen.

6.
Check with the pilot about a cockpit tour if you're bringing kids. They might even be allowed to press the Warp Speed button themselves.


Tips:
Throw away your moisturizers and skin creams. You're going to come back younger than when you left.

Students Zak Martinez and Melinda Leash say they weren't even trying to defy the laws of physics. "We were trying to create the ideal recreational drug, and we stumbled onto this," says Martinez. "It's disappointing, of course, but we'll keep trying."

*Ask the captain to turn on the headlights.

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tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

foreplay - so fast you'd swear it never even happened at all

MsLegs said:

charlottegelin said:

Then you're not getting the right kind.

TMPletz said:

My thoughts exactly. Foreplay is Hors D'Overs and isn't for those who want to eat quick and leave. If you want to eat quick and leave then, take your speedy ass to MacDonald's.

charlottegelin said:

Speaking the truth.


With a guy once who only felt like kissing when his dick was hard, and when his dick was hard he mostly had better things to do than kiss. I will never understand it. . .

tackam said:

You have my sympathy .
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so what travels faster than the speed of light? - Me, when MsLegs tells me she wants me now!