'WE HAVE BROKEN THE SPEED OF LIGHT' claims a pair of German physicists - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time, as Einstein's special theory of relativity claims it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz,say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory while investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling. The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to bizarre consequences such as an astronaut moving faster than light would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.
LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xm
Thanks to Creation Research for the information.
This means that if the speed of light is not the constant that it is claimed to be then all calculations of the age of the universe based on belief in a fixed value forlight are suspect. (Ref. Setterfield, Light, fact).
There is already evidence that the current speed of light has been slowing down which would have a similar effect on all long age calculations for the beginning of the universe and such times would be dramatically compacted.
[No. I don't understand the 'how', either.]
