On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:52:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PrinceGaz wrote: > > > Not strictly true, Larry. It has been demonstrated in laboratories that information > > may travel faster than light through "quantum-tunneling" which I confess I am not > > particular well up on, but has demonstrated information can be transmitted at about > > two or three times the speed of light albeit with high error rates, but correctable and > > most definetley faster than light (think of it as sending something which takes a day > > to arrive but you add extra stuff to correct errors which adds an hour, except the day > > was more like a picosecond and the hour a fraction of that :-) > > Hi. I was referring to motion as in a jet, car, plane, space, ship, etc. I think that > Einstein was referring to the same thing. ??? Eh? I think Einstein may well have had particles in mind when he was doing his theorising regarding this... > I'm sure that atomic sub particles may have the capability of moving at speed faster then > light. But that's not going to get me from New York to Calif. in a minute. But why would the principles be different? Do we apply different laws to them - well OK then, enough already with the wave / particle duality stuff... ;-) > I guess I chose a poor analogy, because in my find when I think about breaking the speed of > light barrier, it's about movement as in Mach 1, etc. But surely the rationale that applies to particles, applies to "you" as well. Neil _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
