17.08.2007 05:35 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

German scientists claim to have broken speed of light

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe're almost terrified to hear what the physicists in the crowd have to say about this one, but a duo of German scientists have reportedly broken the speed of light. To do so, the two "set up an experiment in which microwave photons, energetic packets of light, appeared to travel instantaneously between two prisms forming the halves of a cube placed a meter apart." According to them, they were able to force light to overcome its own speed limit by utilizing a "strange phenomenon known as quantum tunnel

Weiterlesen bei Engadget

Digg del.icio.us Facebook email MySpace Technorati Twitter

JustMac.info © Thomas Lohner - Impressum - Datenschutz