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Old 19-12-2010, 11:58 AM
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Question: Faster Than Light?

Ok, so I've just recently rediscovered something I haven't though about for a long time, (if ever), and been proven wrong in the process !

There are phenomena which regularly exceed the speed of light:

i) The phase velocity of electromagnetic signals;

ii) The rotation velocity of a light source (say a laser light in a lighthouse), projected onto a 'screen' at large distance (say, the shoreline): when the sweep velocity is measured by two points on the shoreline, it regularly exceeds 'c';

iii) Communication between entangled quantum particles.

It would also seem that no information is exchanged in any of the above examples.

Does anyone else find this surprising … or is it just me ?

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