#superluminal

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Perpetual drift

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Ultimate Word Tournament!

Season 2

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蝴蝶結

superluminal

Voting ended onAug 4, 2023

蝴蝶結 (Mandarin) húdiéjié /xu˧˥ ti̯ɛ˧˥ t͡ɕi̯ɛ˧˥/ butterfly bow tie; bowknot; the knot commonly used to tie shoelaces.

superluminal (English) /supɚluːmɪnl̩/ Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.

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Superluminal. Vonda N. McIntyre, 1983.

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Cat Rapes Dog - Superluminal - Video Clip -1991 - 1080p

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Oh look, some scientists believe FTL travel without breaking relativity is possible

Study Shows How The Universe Would Look if You Broke The Speed of Light, And It's Weird

Nothing can go faster than light.

The flip of perspective when traveling superluminal and thus perceiving other superluminal objects as subluminal is wild and has all sorts of crazy implications for navigation and perception.

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Ask Ethan: Can Gamma-Ray Jets Really Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

“What gives? Is it really possible for gamma-rays to exceed the speed of light and thereby “reverse” time? Is the time reversal just a theoretical claim that allows these hypothetical super-light speed particles to conform with Relativity or is there empirical evidence of this phenomenon?”

Very recently, a paper came out claiming that gamma-ray bursts, and the jets that give them off, can travel faster than the speed of light. If that sounds too fantastic to be true, there’s a reason for that: particles can travel faster than light, but only in a medium, where the speed of light is less than the speed of light in a vacuum. Gamma-ray bursts, when they occur, exhibit a strange property: the signal is mostly a large peak, but when you subtract that peak out, parts of the residual signal are symmetric: if you flip it, part of it going forwards in time is identical to the remainder going backwards in time.

Sound weird? Well, we’re just getting started! Come find out the true story behind this fascinating phenomenon, and what just became our best explanation of what makes it so!