I think there must be something wrong with faster than light travel according to the standart theory, it just doesn´t makes sense. There must be another explanation or simply Einstein was wrong and we are following a mistake, perhaps if we change some basic arguments of the standart theory we can find the TOE sooner.
2006-07-18 07:46:58 · 7 answers · asked by dbosada 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Well, yes things can travel faster than light, but they aren't normal particles.
Particles called "Tachyons", ALWAYS travel faster than light, but no one has ever seen one. We can prove they exist on paper and in very complex formulas, but its like proving Bigfoot must exist because I can draw a picture of him.
Einstein wasn't wrong, but he didn't know what we know today. New and exciting things like "M Theory" are giving us new perspective on the relationship between the large relativity theories and the small quantum mechanics.
One of my favorite tachyon analogies is the story of Jessie Owens out running a racehorse. Of course, no person can run faster than a horse. Much in the same way nothing can run faster than light. However, Owens new that horses have very low acceleration and high top speed, while people have high acceleration and low top speed. Once he knew this all he had to do was change the length of the race from 1 mile to only a couple hundred feet. Owens new that he could outrun a horse for a couple hundred feet before the top speed of the horse overtook him and he wouldn't be able to catch up. Owens did outrun a racehorse, but only because he was tricky about it.
Tachyons are the same way. They kind of "trick" space-time into allowing them to move between areas faster than what it would take light to make the same trip.
2006-07-18 07:57:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Entanglement of separated subatomic particles is an unanswered phenomenon. Although entanglement appears to violate Einstein's rule that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, it's unlikely that there is any action at a distance communication between the particles. even gravity waves do not violate this principle; in fact they travel at exactly the speed of light. Something else is a work here to which some of our best scientists are diligently trying to figure out.
2006-07-18 15:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by James H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What exactly makes you think this? Nothing (at least nothing with mass) can possibly travel faster than light. It would take more energy than there is in the entire universe to accellerate the smallest bit of matter even to the speed of light, because it would have infinite mass.
2006-07-18 14:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by anthonydavidpirtle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Entanglement is really misrepresented, and not that complex.
Imagine you take two boxes and put a red ball in one and a blue ball in the other, close them and mix them up.
Now take on box to new york and the other to la.
If you open the box in la and it has a blue ball in it you instantly know that the box in new york has a red ball in it. No mystery. No magic. No faster than light travel.
Quantum entangled particles are just associated states put into boxes and statistically mixed, just like the above. No great mystery.
2006-07-19 04:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by Epidavros 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Entanglement does seem to happen faster than the speed of light. More importantly, it seems to happen simultaneously, meaning that there was no amount of time to be measured. The real physicists are working on that problem right now.
2006-07-18 14:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein was right.........It's just Heisenberg was wrong...he had to be...his own theory proves he is.
2006-07-18 14:50:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
S.S.A.
now you have your very own theory....
2006-07-18 14:52:35 · answer #7 · answered by rooster2381 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋