How does going faster than light makes you travel back in time?

J

Japrim

Active Member
Messages
611
Matter cannot exceed the speed of light as per E=MC²

C represents the speed of light, the "constant", the 'relative' point in the equation, the cosmic speed limit.
 
Harte

Harte

Senior Member
Messages
4,562
TimeFlipper said:
Yes Hartey, Photons can be absorbed by an atom for example and then re-emitted out again at luminal velocity and this happens so quickly it appears to the observer that their luminal velocity has never altered..:)

What iam saying is that scientists have come up with that idea of slowing down a photon without it going back to luminal velocity as in my previous sentence..It appeared in the New Scientist Magazine a while back and as your a better researcher than iam, iam sure you will find that article somewhere on the internet :)
Click to expand...
Yeah, that's what my link was about. Light has been slowed extremely by a new method associated with the Bose Einstein Condensate - the first way they did it.

It appears that they somehow associate photons with atoms in the BEC:
The lasers allowed incoming photons to combine with atoms to form a hybrid particle known as a polariton. Because polaritons get mass from the atoms, they move slower than c.
Click to expand...
From that link.

Harte
 

Top