Cesium Vapor Faster Than Light

3/15/2009

Associated Press.

Scientists have apparently broken the universe'sspeed limit.

For generations, physicists believed there is nothingfaster than light moving through a vacuum -- a speedof 186,000 miles per second.But in an experiment in Princeton, New Jersey,physicists sent a pulse of laser light through

cesiumvapor

so quickly that it left the chamber before it hadeven finished entering.The pulse traveled 310 times the distance it wouldhave covered if the chamber had contained avacuum.Researchers say it is the most convincingdemonstration yet that the speed of light --supposedly an ironclad rule of nature -- can bepushed beyond known boundaries, at least under certain laboratory circumstances.

3/15/2009

Impossible Correspondence

Faster Than Light Experiment By Robert Grace

...Einstein's Theory did not say that "nothing can travel faster than the speed of light".The Theory does suggest that "no one can see it travel faster than the speed of light".Building upon that, we would have to question why the NEC experiment could claimthat a faster than light speed was detected.Without even knowing how many lasers were used I will suggest it was 3 lasers used toexpand the cesium atomsinto an excited, expanded Rydberg stateand in this expanded state the interatomic distances and the subsequent wavelengths and frequencies were stretched out.When the expanded cesium atomsreplicate the laser frequency information, theexpanded atoms stretch out the spacetime of thosecesium atomsbecause theinformation feeding the atom is altered by theRydberg laserskicking the atoms intoexcited states meaning altered, higher harmonic frequency states. Certainly the infiniteharmonic pulse of waves can travel faster than light and according to Einstein's Theory,it cannot be detected. As reported, "The team used a 2.5-inch-long chamber filled with avapor of cesium , ametallic element with a goldish color. They then trained several laser beams on theatoms, putting them in a stable but highly unnatural state.In that condition, a pulse of light or "wave packet" (a cluster made up of many separateinterconnected waves of different frequencies) is drastically reconfigured as it passesthrough the vapor. Some of the component waves are stretched out, otherscompressed. Yet at the end of the chamber, they recombine and reinforce one another to form exactly the same shape as the original pulse, Wang said. "It's called re- phasing." "several lasers" probably means 3. "putting them in a stable but highly unnatural state" means theRydberg state. "drastically reconfigured" means the spacetime and hence frequencies were altered

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Again as reported, "The key finding is that the reconstituted pulse re-forms before the original intact pulse could have gotten there by simply traveling though empty space. That is, the peak of the pulse is, in effect,extended forward in time. As a result, detectors attached to thebeginning and end of the vapor chamber show that the peak of theexiting pulse leaves the chamber about 62 billionths of a second beforethe peak of the initial pulse finishes going in." "extended forward in time" means stretched spacetime doesn't it? I hold that any faster than light speed cannot be detected which generates twoimportant questions: So what did the NEC experiment detect? What caused the "sudden and precipitous drop in refractive index, speeding upthe passage of a pulse of light"? The assumption, "The key finding is that the reconstituted pulse re-formsbefore the original intact pulse could have gotten there by simply traveling though empty space. That is, the peak of the pulse is, in effect,extended forward in time." This assumption is based upon "detectorsattached to the beginning and end of the vapor chamber" which "show that the peak of the exiting pulse leaves the chamber about 62 billionthsof a second before the peak of the initial pulse finishes going in." "That isnot the way things usually work. Ordinarily,when sunlight--which, likethe pulse in the experiment, is a combination of many different frequencies--passes through a glass prism, the prism disperses the whitelight's components." "This happens because each frequency moves at adifferent speed in glass , smearing out the original light beam. Blue is slowed the most, and thus deflected the farthest; red travels fastest and is bent the least. That phenomenon produces the familiar r ai nbow "