Submission + - German physicists claim faster-than-light speed (scotsman.com)
Byzanthy writes: Two German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light by using "microwave photons". According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate any object at more than 299792458m/s.
However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they did it by using a phenomenon known as 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.
Of course the consequences, if true (!), could be mind blowing [insert time-travel-joke here].
