Subject: Re: What is SETI?
From: "Paul F. Dietz" <dietz@dls.net>
Date: 09/05/2004, 23:28
Newsgroups: sci.astro.seti,alt.sci.seti,sci.space.policy

Stelv wrote:

 Ooh, Ooh, I have something I can add to this discussion!  I read about the experiment of FTL and if I remember correctly, no physical laws were violated, but apparently it is possible to send information faster than light, but not the matter or energy.


No, not even that.

The so-called FTL experiments have the general character that the peak
of a waveform appears to travel faster than light.  However, what is
happening is that the wave has a long, low leading component, and it is
this part of the wave that gets squashed into the new peak (while the
old peak is spread out into a long trailing tail.)

    Paul