Scientists break the speed of light | the Daily Mail
If this is true, then one of Einstein's theories has been proven wrong, but it has been thought that general realitivity has been flawed for some time.
If this is true, then one of Einstein's theories has been proven wrong, but it has been thought that general realitivity has been flawed for some time.
So, basically, two light beams leave at the same time and one gets reflected through a prism. They both still arrive at the same time, meaning the reflected beam had to be moving faster than the speed of light as the non-reflected beam arrived at the same time.Their experiments focused on the travel of microwave photons - energetic packets of light - through two prisms.
When the prisms were moved apart, most photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector.
But a few appeared to "tunnel" through a gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.
Although these photons had traveled a longer distance, they arrived at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons. This suggests that the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light.