| 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