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- adjective Faster than the
speed of light in avacuum , thetheoretical speed limit fortravel within theuniverse .
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No jet packs (not good ones, anyway), no faster-than-light travel, no robes or unitards.
2009 January 2009
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If its more basic equations described some kind of faster-than-light stellar engine, who knew what could lie deep within?
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Well, a direct result of faster-than-light travel, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, is time-travel: A light signal, and therefore information, could arrive at its destination before it had even been sent!
Kevin Bermeister: Time Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science Kevin Bermeister 2011
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No jet packs (not good ones, anyway), no faster-than-light travel, no robes or unitards.
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Talking trees, faster-than-light travel, lots of impossible stuff.
Archive 2010-04-01 Big Jim 2010
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Despite the latest result, said Autiero, the observed faster-than-light anomaly in the neutrinos' speed from Cern to Gran Sasso needed further scrutiny and independent tests before it could be refuted or confirmed definitively.
Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment 2011
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Alan Kostelecky, an expert in the possibility of faster-than-light processes at Indiana University, said that while physicists would await confirmation of the result, it was none the less exciting.
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Books filled with incest, surrealism, brutality, and no faster-than-light drives.
Getting back up to steam (hold the 'punk') wendigomountain 2009
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Even a tiny discrepancy between the clocks at Cern and Gran Sasso could be at the root of the faster-than-light results seen in September.
Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment 2011
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Talking trees, faster-than-light travel, lots of impossible stuff.
Suspension of Disbelief....Failing... Big Jim 2010
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