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Radim said:I've just noticed this link - I was WTF at first glance, but after reading paragraph or two it was clear what they are talking about. I call it "science tabloids". However it is just seemingly breaking relativity - no information is carried with this higher speed. It is just mentioned there as well. It is similar like you might shine laser on very distant wall and move really fast by rotation -the dot on wall might also be faster than speed of light, but does not carry any information from place A (first hit on the wall) to B (the last hit on the wall).
Also there were some doubts that they measured neutrinos (?) faster than light (in vacuum!!!) recently, but it was proven to be a problem in some cable or something like that, if I remember it correctly.
Another interesting effect is in nuclear reactors - cherenkov radiation - also caused by particles faster than light (but in that particular environment of course). It looks like this:
Oh yes, I was by far not suggesting that the information was being transmitted FTL, but it sure was an interesting article. Neutrinos was a measurement error and haven't been proven to be FTL. I have heard of Cherenkov radiation but have no knowledge on it. Thanks for sharing Radim.