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How to Travel Faster Than Light Without Really Trying (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]
It’s one of the cardinal laws of physics and the underlying principle of Einstein’s relativity itself: the fact that there’s a universal speed limit to the motion of anything through space and time, the speed of light, or c. Light itself will always move at this speed (as well as certain other phenomena, like the force of gravity), while anything with mass — like all known particles of matter and antimatter — will always move slower than that.
Image credit: Matt Howard.
But if you want something to travel faster-than-light, you aren’t, as you might think, relegated to the realm of science fiction. There are real, physical phenomena that do exactly this, and yet are perfectly consistent with relativity.
Image credit: Les Bossinas (Cortez III Service Corp.), 1998 / NASA.
Brian Koberlein explores a few of them in great detail, with spectacular results. Check it out!
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2015/05/26/how-to-travel-faster-than-light-without-really-trying-synopsis/
