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- adverb In a
superluminal manner; faster than thespeed of light .
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Examples
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We analyze the transmission of a Gaussian wave packet incident upon the PCM and find that its peak can be transmitted superluminally.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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Yes, something is communicated superluminally when measurements are made upon sysems characterized by an entangled state, but that something is information, and there is no Relativistic locality principle which constrains its velocity.
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
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Superluminal signaling would require that the state of nearby controllable physical objects (say, a keyboard in my computer) superluminally influence distant observable physical phenomena (e.g. a pattern on a computer screen light years away).
Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics Berkovitz, Joseph 2007
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The coordinated motion of aggregates of subluminally-moving charged particles can give rise to macroscopic polarization currents whose distribution patterns move superluminally.
Centauri Dreams 2009
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Also, there are all kinds of experiments that show "something moving superluminally".
The Reference Frame 2009
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Returning to the omnidirectional blackbody radiator, with you travelling superluminally you’d see the photons of the expanded shell that you subtend as you outrace them, doppler shifted as appropriate.
Rules for Time Travelers Sean 2009
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