Faster than light effects lead to violations of causality. There are very stringent experimental constraints against such effects.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Russell Standish'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Stephen Paul King'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <everything-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 01:43 AM Subject: RE: Neutrino shield idea > I say any massless particle that has a charge supporting a Coulomb force > must travel at the speed of light or faster because the Coulomb force > travels at the speed of light and a charged massless particle will be > repelled by its own Coulomb force. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russell Standish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:04 PM > To: John Ross > Cc: 'Stephen Paul King'; everything-list@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: Neutrino shield idea > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:11:04AM -0700, John Ross wrote: > > * Only photons travel at the speed of light. (Except my tronnies that > > > usually go faster than the speed of light.) > > Who says? Any massless particle will travel at the speed of light. > > -- > *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which > is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. > It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email > came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely > ignore this attachment. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) > Mathematics 0425 253119 (") > UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Australia > http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks > International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- >
