A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light

I still have yet to hear a good explanation as to why it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Pretty simple actually... the equations determining the amount of energy to accelerate an object are non-linear. As the speed increases, the amount of energy required to move that object increases exponentially. Or alternately you could say that the closer to the speed of light we get the heavier the mass becomes, therefore requiring more and more energy to accelerate it. From a positivist standpoint, both points of view are equivalent. So, past a certain speed there isn't enough energy in the universe to propel something to the speed of light (without some serious bending of spacetime, albeit).

blackspike-

we cant travel faster than light because as you approach the speed of light, the energy that normally would cause acceleration is added to your mass, meaning you need more energy to accelerate because you would weigh more.

this paradox goes on and on and eventually you would need the energy of the entire universe to go a tiny bit faster, but still not reach the speed of light. let alone pass it.

look up the actual equations if you want to know more

So you're suggesting that we can convert GHz into km/s? That in itself is a fantastic mathematical breakthrough.

@blackspike2710, according to Einstein';s theory of relativity, the faster a particle moves, the slower time travels for it. Astronauts on the space shuttle are moving at thousands of miles per hour, and their clocks run just a tad slow. As you approach the speed of light, time moves infinitely slowly, so you would be wherever you needed to be in an instant. Therefore, moving anywhere in no time at all, your body could be anywhere in the universe at any given time.
You would explode, the various parts of your body existing in all parts of your path of travel. Hope that makes sense

I have had this theory by using particles that are entangled. One on earth surrounded by a device that could read it's state and change it's state. 1' and 0's then put the entangled 2nd particle in a spacecraft send it out to mars. Use a camera, or even a remote controlled rover. Digitally send commands or receive photos in real time backa to earth. No delay.

Apart from quantum entanglement, there are a few other phenomenon faster than light.
For example, matter falls into a Black Hole at speeds greater than light speed, that's why light cannot escape a Black Hole.
Also, early inflation after the Big Bang expanded the Universe faster than the speed of light.
Ordinary stuff like atoms and photons of course cannot exceed the speed of light because as others have explained it would need more energy than exists in the whole Universe and the mass of the object would be infinite (which is quite heavy, lol).

I was under the impression quantum entanglement was governed by the speed of light.

Nice! Sounds like kinda computer!~

Jes
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Does this have anything to do with quantum teleportation, and what Einstein referred to as Spooky Action from a Distance? If so, does this mean they have solved the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

@Blackspike2710 - It is an experimental fact which you can check for yourself (if you have an incredibly precise experimental setup) that all observers see light traveling at the same speed - c. If I'm moving towards a flashlight at 2000 meters per second, and you're stationary, we will *both* see the light from that flashlight approaching at c. It's a very odd and counter-intuitive fact, but a fact nonetheless. (In Newtonian mechanics, you would see the light approaching at c; I would see it approaching at (c + 2000m/s) - but this simply doesn't happen)

So suppose you're on a rocket ship flying towards me at twice the speed of light, and you have a flashlight on board. Suppose that you shine the light towards me, then continue flying towards me. On reaching me, you drop a big curtain in front of me that blocks any light behind you from reaching me. Now the question is, do I see the light from your flashlight or not? From your perspective, I do. The light from your flashlight traveled away in front of you at c; as the light was always in front of you it must have reached me before you did, so your dropping the curtain doesn't block the light. From my perspective, I don't. You're approaching at 2c, and the light is only approaching at c. You both left the same place at the same time, so the light will be arriving after you do; you dropped a big curtain, so I don't see the light at all. So I both see and don't see the light - pure nonsense. Where was the flaw that let this happen? It was when I assumed you *could* be on a ship traveling at 2c. It's clear that it simply doesn't make logical sense to consider faster-than-light travel.

oh silly humans. going faster than light means traveling backwards in time.

duh.

I create a process that within relativistic time would take at least 10 min.

processing it supposedly faster than lightime it is available in 5 min. This means that even though this information will not be available for another 5 minutes it somehow got sent back in time 5 minutes to you.

I don't think so.

Just because information is available instantaneously on either side of your galaxy doesn't mean the information traveled faster than light! You speak as if space has a true distance. Your dimension is so stupid. I wish I could slap you back to the primordial soup.

So communication from a space ship far off in the solar system could happen instantaneously? So talking with people hanging out by Pluto wouldn't take a year ish?

So communication from a space ship far off in the solar system could happen instantaneously? So talking with people hanging out by Pluto wouldn't take a year ish?

"But if it can keep more than ten tabs in Firefox open simultaneously without crashing, we'll take a dozen."

I can have 17 tabs in one window, ~5 in another, and yet 10 more in another window without crashing. Thats 3 windows with an ~total of 32 tabs and I don't crash at all; plus I know I have had more than that in the past.This is using Safari on my MBP by the way.

Rene,

The problem with your proposed quantam communication device would be that as soon as you observe one of the two tangled particles actual position (say it was a '1')the entangelment would instantly cease and we would see the other as its known '0'. Poof no more entangelment and any other interactions with either particle would not result in effect on the previously entagled. Of course we would know instantly when it was looked at so I wonder, couldn't you use that as like a starting gun to start a race remotely instantaneously and doesn't that single event count as information transmission? Instead of using the actual particle spin we just care about unobserved vs. observed states.

Hello alien wallyma, maybe the universe/multiverse/spacetime is infinite, scalar and fractal, with infinite dimensions.
Quantum mechanics happens at warp speed, ie infinite speed, which means synchonicity/simultaneity.
Gravity is the aggregation of a large number of Planck sized quanta, and every dimension has its own gravity.
At infinite speed, quanta are everywhere at the same time. Time is everywhere simultaneous.
Everything is happening everywhere simultaneously in infinite dimensions.
Dark Matter is the soup, the jelly our local universe floats in, the effect of an aggregation of
Planck quanta in many dimensions.
Ordinary Matter is the condensing of one dimension of DM sensitive to photons at the local level.
You can't set the clock back to 5 minutes ago or reverse time or time travel, but you can of course observe the universe as it was 10 billion years ago by looking at the night sky. Maybe with a powerful enough observatory we could see into the past with sufficient detail to observe our parents conceiving us, and see if the creationists were correct.

People. Time does not exist.
I'm sorry.

It is a rate that was created by humans, it's no more real than Miles/hour.
Early humans had there rate of time as the passing of days, and we have continued to break it into different increments.
The rate of time is 1 second /1 second. You can't move through it, because there is nothing to move through.

chrisstevens was correct in saying that we can see what happened in the "past" by looking at the night sky, but even then there are no "time paradoxes" only our perception and perspective. Like the delay of thunder.

Also IF you were able to move faster than light, I believe the light would attain an extremely high energy level, and would still always travel at the speed of light. At the point when you reached that speed I believe an effect similar to a sonic boom would be observed, except with light instead of sound, and you wouldn't want to be near it; you would probably be more comfortable floating near the sun with no radiation protection.

"So communication from a space ship far off in the solar system could happen instantaneously?"

No.

If you have the simplest possible case of two entangled particles with two possible states(e.g. spin up or down). If I measure my particle and find that it has spin up, I know that you will find that your particle has spin down when you eventually get around to measuring it and vice versa.

There is no way for you to tell if I have made a measurement on my particle or not, other than slower than light communication. There is no way for me to affect the random outcome of my measurement to force my particle to adopt a particular spin. Hence I cannot convey any information to you whatsoever.

@Blackspike2710-

The reason we can't go faster than the speed of light is because we currently believe we can't.
Once upon a time Newtonian physics was the standard model for the universe and anything that fell outside of that was "impossible."
However, as our instruments of observation improved new theories for the "impossible" had to be formulated to have our perception of the universe align with the observable evidence. This is where Einstein fits in. His theory currently encompasses MOST of what is observed about the universe. One of the stipulations for it to work is that the speed of light, c, is the speed limit of the universe.
Perhaps some day our instruments resolution will be so fine as to find contradictions or inescapable holes within this theory. At which point a new theory will be brought forth that may or may not invalidate the speed of light as a limit.

At this point, it's all theory and nothing more. It was less than 200 years ago people believed man would never be able to travel more than a mile in a minute because "the pressure would kill him". Then we would never go faster than the speed of sound, or land on the moon, or create nuclear energy. Now we have jets that go 3 or 4 times the speed of sound and rockets have sent probes to the outer parts of our solar system. It always seems like whenever we don't have the technology to do something "right now", that means it will never happen.

at the firefox comment.

That depends if you're using bloatafox or reg firefox with minimal add-ons and how much ram you have.

I can have 40+ tabs and play ME2 without problems. ..Now if you leave em on for a day..then you'll prob just crash and burn.

In similar news:

I can throw a baseball over 1000 kilograms far!

My dog can wag his tail 40 times in 100 yards.

The neighbor boy can count to 1000 in less than 700 miles per hour.

Sorry to break it to you, but time does exist. The manner in which we measure it is the thing which is arbitrary and contrived. Time travels at different speeds and in different directions for different particles and observers. Time also ceases to flow for particles like photons which travel at light speed but are massless.

The idea is that for particles traveling slower than light, time flows from past to present to future, but for particles traveling faster than light, the equations are balanced by simply allowing time to travel from future to present to past. And just like particles that flow the "correct" way through time cannot go faster than the speed of light, particles that flow the "incorrect" way through time cannot go slower than the speed of light, the tachyon is a good example of this theory.

Also, regarding the possible "sonic boom" analog with respect to light, there IS a relativistic doppler effect (look up "relativistic doppler effect" on wikipedia), but no "sonic boom" type effect, because faster-than-light travel from "past" to "future" is impossible.

Andrew Watson
Moravian College, Class of 2012
Intended B.A. in Physics, B.S. in Math

Guys the reason we cannot travel faster then the speed of light its not because Einstein equations suggested that the mass becomes infinitely big as we accelerate ,( he based his equations on that postulate that the light speed cannot be broken) so that is a circular reasoning.

I have not heard a reason yet so far its just a postulate and if its proven wrong equations are wrong too :)

That's nice but can it run Crysis at max?

I can accept that matter or energy can not move faster than light speed. The poster above insists on thinking in a Euclidean universe.

However, if quantum physics says a change in an electron here can cause an instantaneous change in an electron there, then it seems you could arrange with a person at a distance that if something happens, you will change your electron and he can see the change in his. That would be communication, and I don't see how the two notions would contradict.

I can accept that matter or energy can not move faster than light speed. The poster above insists on thinking in a Euclidean universe.

However, if quantum physics says a change in an electron here can cause an instantaneous change in an electron there, then it seems you could arrange with a person at a distance that if something happens, you will change your electron and he can see the change in his. That would be communication, and I don't see how the two notions would contradict.

Regarding whether time exists, has anyone ever seen time? If humans had never come into being, would there be such a thing as time then?

We can take concepts such as before and after, simultaneity, slow and fast, long time and short time, and say we have demonstrated something that exists in itself, and can be objectively measured.

However, if time can be shown to be relative, and if simultaneity can be demonstrated to have exceptions, would there be objective time?

Can we even define time? And if we can't even define it without using circular logic, then how can we say we know it's there, outside of our perception?

Here's how I see Einstein's equation: If one wants to travel at the speed of light, one has to BE light. One's mass is totally converted into light energy in order to travel at that speed.

Poetically speaking, the only thing faster than the speed of light is thought, which is not entirely far from the physical truth as this article has shown.

If humans hadn't developed visual capacity, would we be now saying that nothing can exceed the comparatively-sluggish speed of sound? Conversely, are there latent capacities within us which hold the potential for sensing forces faster than light. I think there are. Some have said Einstein's "C" stood for "Consciousness".

In fact, there's an experiment that's been running for 15 years now pertaining to super-luminal communication
( cassiopaea.com ). One of the experimenters is a theoretical physicist with 85 articles published in international journals ( arkadiusz-jadczyk.org/jadczyk_publications.html ).

After months tinkering with details, on the evening the Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter, the experimenter began accessing data from herself "in the future"! The data comes in response to queries and is cryptic to preserve the experimenter's free will. However, traditional research stemming from these "clues" has consistently born fruit.

Quite fascinating to say the least.

The basic theory ive come up with is based on einsteins theory of relativity. E=MC2

with using this equation, we can substitute the factors and come up with a relative theory for the speed of light for this computer. Energy = Mass X (Speed X Speed)of anything right? so substitute the data for energy, then input your factors into the equation.

Data being sent = (let's just say) 1GB X (let's just say) 250 Kbps X 250 Kbps. Thus sending it at a rate in which the speed can be limitless. This is just a theory, and probably not true, but i was just contributing my thoughts.

RE: Musicman24286 ...which is kind of how a Bon Shaman/Tantric Buddhist I spoke with in Nepal in 1987 explained his ability to be in two places at once, walk through walls, transubstantiate river gravel to rice... and a host of other demonstrated abilities for which I have no explanation or proof. The only mechanism for his lightspeed "trip" was the Mind (which he defined as a "pool" of electrochemical energy, possessed of-and-by Will)--which he claimed could, with the proper instruction, accelerate consciousness to the speed of light... more: not impede its innate ability to do so... Just relax, and float down stream of Consciousness, in NO TIME @ All ... or something like that. It was/is utterly fantastic, equaled since only by what Quantum Physics has told us (in THEORY, granted) about the structure of All... of this. Remarkable: in that, Modern Science and an Ancient Philosophy use the same language to describe other-worldly states of being. A "Computer" that processes faster than the speed of light? We already have one: Above the chin and a little left of center.

RE: si.emgo: Time exists. Space exists. We exist--but only in two dimensions. Time/Space as a singularity emulates (and therefore functions as) the third dimension in that it permits an "interval" of change of state. 3-Dimensionality is perceptual: We are here/we were there gives the perception of depth and, since we are always in motion (on a quantum level) even if we are just sitting around sipping a beer, we only seem to have depth. It is the "nature" of things in the singularity which we inhabit To wit: The universe is a monoplanar hypersolid (much like a Mobius Toroid) defining space without actually "containing" it--containment in the way that a bottle of beer "contains" beer. Linear and lateral movement establish locus and, over time combined with causal variability, establish vector (motility). However, like the Mobius Toroid, the causal string of our universe is closed, "looped" as it were, back from whence it came. Causal Variablity is then achieved by subdivision of the primal platform which--for the Mobius Toroid, after an infinte number of subdivisions--yields a sphere of matter/energy "strings" (which are the image of the Primal Platform) inextricably intertwined; thus strengthening the illusion of 3-dimensionality: a perceptual bias which ties us to the whole, lest we wander off, will-he-nil-he, victims of our strained imaginations. Try this at home: Make one Mobius Toroid. Take one nut and one bolt. Drill a hole in Toroid, insert bolt, affix nut; then note: Head of bolt and fixing nut are on the same side of the structure. Proof positive: we are as flat as a week old beer. And that is all I'm gonna say about that...

that's really cool.

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I am inclined to side with BeanyBoy on this one. At one point in time, all respectable scientists KNEW that the universe revolved around the Earth. At one point in time, all respectable scientists KNEW that the world was flat. These things that were once held as common knowledge are the very things that we now laugh at our forefathers for believing, even if we do understand where they were coming from.

Point being- every advancement and breakthrough in science and technology so far has at one time been just an item of fiction. To think that now we have evolved to our full capacity and knowlegde that we can say for a certainty that these things that are so beyond our capacity are 'impossible' seems rather short sighted and foolish.

So yes, traveling beyond the speed of light is impossible... for today's understanding of the universe and the technology we have therein, but for tomorrow (read- years later), just imagine what we'll be laughing about then.

I think the entire concept of causality violation due to FTL transmission of information is simply the product of the limitation of human understanding ie it doesn't really exist.

What's amusing is if there are other intelligent beings that know of our existence they'd probably laughing at us on this one.

What about the fact that when talking about two events separated in space, the word "simultaneous" can have no meaning? This is touted as a problem in some physics. Why not also in this physics?

Light and something else is bounded by light speed - life. Otherwise Universe could exist in any form because it wouldn't mater to anyone, than perhaps we would live like ghosts in shapeless world ;)
Traveling in time is not allowed, because everything in universe would have to return to the same place, relative to each other. That would require really infinite amount of energy. It would also mean nothing can appear from nothing, because it can't enter the universe, except if it was already there. If something move, new time/space is created, because gravity field is changed and if it could travel back, gravity could increase infinitely at that place/time.
We are not a solid object and nothing is really 3D, because everything is in motion and we interact only one point at the time. It happens so fast, we can see illusion of 3D objects. Actually, we never see whole objects. I think only our gravity center is in so called relative present time and we observe the past, similar as looking at stars. Universe can remember the past, as we can see and as we know.
I would like to see how they entangle particles and if they can entangle traps also, because than they could synchronize time intervals and exchange information. Lady or tiger.

I believe that time is only a measurement of the lifespan of an object..

Sence light only travels at the speed of light it makes sence that we would be able to see things that have already happened.

If you travel the speed of light it would appear time has stopped, although this would only be the case if you travel in a line and time would not actually stop. If your thinking that if you traveled in a circle around the world at speeds faster then light that you would move into the past, then your wrong.. you would how ever see an after image of your self but it would only be an image of light and not an object.

Your body and mind work in an absolute way so no matter how fast you are moving your body and mind will still tick to the same beat as someone who is traveling slower. The only way to break this, if posable is to create a bubble around your body that creates a relative space for only you, the space in the bubble would have to slow your bodies clock down or speed it up.

If your bodies clock is slowed down then everything around you will be going faster and you would be able to move into the future maintaining your current body age.. If your bodies click is speed up then everything around you would go slower and you would age faster then everyone else.

Ever wonder why some days at work seem longer then others? Normally if you are doing something new (depending what it is) you focus on the task and sence your so focused your thought process becomes slower and when your thought process is slower the time around you will appear to go faster but really your minds just working slower. Your body however is still ticking at the same rate as everyone elses.

When your thought process is faster, normally when you are use to doing something you can comprehend alot more things around you and take more in, you dont really have to focus at anything you can just do it. Time will appear to go slower unless your focused on a task then the thought process is slower again.

So, In the end you can not go into the past but you can see the past because what you see is light and light travels at a speed. You would not be able to hear(sounds can travel threw space?)/smell/feel anything.

You should be able to move into the future.

This is how i view time and i doubt it can be proven wrong. Give it a shot.

I absolutely love reading good articles and comments. Thank you popsci.

To accept that something (light, for example) can move from point A to point B through space requires the element that we commonly refer to as "time". Even the smallest movements, vibrations, and oscillations are dependent on a dimension of space-time.

Stick to arguing that humans do not understand time. To argue that it does not exist is simply a waste of it.

first of all the theory of relativity is incorrect in the asumption of the c squared bit and all people that relate to that are incorrect. it should say that e=m squared c. you can go faster than the speed of light but need a compression factor for your energy to accelerate past light speed and it is hard to compress light.

My understanding is that if the sun ever went out it would take 20 minutes before we knew on earth. With that in mind...Lets say we were able to float a light sensor in space near the sun. Attached to this sensor is a string that is attached and extends all the way to a device floating in space near the earth. If the string is taunt and the light sensor is designed that if there is no more sunlight it is to pull this string. The device near the earth is designed that if it senses the string is pulled it is to send a signal to earth that the sun went out. Did it just give us a 20 minute warning. And if so did that information travel faster than the speed of light. And if that is true maybe we should build computer chips out of string....hahaha

If your talking about my above comment then yes. I am not saying that time does not exist but only that its misunderstood about how it works in terms of time travel and seeing the past/future..

I do not believe i even mentioned anything about time not existing. please quote if i did.

Question: will the Apple version cost more than the Microsoft?

pg_joewho,

I get what your saying the thing is a string is a solid object and light is a wave.

we would not know about it untill 20 mins later because there would be 20mins of light still traveling threw space.

removing any properties in the string that would cause delay then yes it would be instant. but the string would not actually be traveling faster then light. it would only move about an inch or what ever and only at the speed it is being pulled.

i could explain more but ill leave it at that. if you think about it a little, it makes sence.

"I was under the impression quantum entanglement was governed by the speed of light." ..... Meshca 03/09/10 at 8:16 pm

A false and misleading impression, Meshca, when its Sublime Speeds are both Governed and Generated by the Power and Control of Thought to Create Virtual Travel and Present Placement of Future Prowess ..... thus coincidentally dDelivering Leading Protocols with Dynamic NEUKlearer Algorithms for HyperRadioProActive IT.

Which is an XSSXXXXStreamly MkUltraSensitive Binary Program for New and SurReal Virtual World Order Operations Systems from Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems in AI for the Singularity of a Transparent Universally Shared Flight Path/Virtual Trajectory to Follow and Reverse Engineer for Greater Enlightenment with Future Information which you may be more comfortable considering is an Advancing Beta Intelligence rather than denying is an Alien Offering to your Global Operating Devices. ....... and Truly Great Game Players and Non State Actors ..... Virtual Teleportation Catalysts.

And I Kid U Not .... for AI Bluffs are so and all too easily called, to be extraordinarily outed and revealed as nothing but Vapourware Fraud.

Ok folks, here's a question from a complete moron. As we travel closer to the speed of light, don't we also travel through light frequency? meaning your human flesh at one point is focused through the Gamma level....umm wouldn't that give your fragile body a lethal amount of radiation?

chrisf77

I agree with you, but if light is subject to gravity, then doesn't that make it a solid object as well as a wave?

chrisf77

I agree with you, but if light is subject to gravity, then doesn't that make it a solid object as well as a wave?

I had 13 tabs open when I read the article.. ?

From Albert's Birthday (song)

I cannot escape
the moment I'm in,
no matter how hard I try.

Time doesn't move,
molecules spin,
and events, made of them,
fill the sky.

pg_joewho,

"I agree with you, but if light is subject to gravity, then doesn't that make it a solid object as well as a wave?"

my explanation would be that.. Light travels threw space. (by space i mean a volume of something) the space that the light is traveling threw is subject to gravity. Sence the light is using the particals in the space to move, if the particals are affected by gravity then so is the light.

If this dont make sence let me know and i can explain more..

I'm no physicist but I've read about the phenomenon. Do you think at the point where the photon becomes an electron and a positron that it's forming an elongated nucleon inside of a magnetic field with it's fermions aligning again when they again form a photon? Maybe that's why it can do it faster than light. Two states becoming the same at the end of a long magnetic field.

So how do you measure GHz to compare it to the speed of light? So what do today's range of computers relate to? 100 MPH?

So you run a process, and shine a light at the same time. The process will complete first? Wow, these guys are insane.

i know that i have had at least 108 tabs in firefox and my computer was nothing special 6 years ago.

how do we know that light cant escape blackholes anyway. I ve heard good arguments but why isnt it that the light escapes but the object emitting light was gobbled up and isnt producing light to escape anymore?

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THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF LOVE

In 1992 I attended a function at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the foyer of the Great Hall, where the function was being held, an exhibition had been set up. The function and exhibition was organised by the Sri Sathya Sai Organisation of South Africa.

One of the exhibit pieces was titled "Science and Spirituality"

In a section of this exhibit the issues around what we today know as Quantum Entanglement, Non-locality or quantum non-local phenomenon was highlighted.

The answer to how and why a photon pair - at opposite sides of the universe - communicate instantaneously was revealed.

As previous comments have pointed out
- infinite mass
- infinite energy
are not possible in reality.

The answer does not reside here. It cannot be found in the hardware side of nature.

If you have an error in your spreadsheet or you cannot find a music clip on your heard drive or you cannot find a site in the first 10 pages of Google results do you out the memory chips or hard drive and check them out with a magnifying glass.

No! You have to look in the software, the operating system.

The answer to this phenomena does not lie in the hardware but rather the software, the soulware or more correctly "The Soul-Aware".

Two critical questions have to be asked to find the answer to this juicy riddle of science.

Question 1 - How does the one photon know that the state of the other one has changed across billions of light years?

Question 2 - Why does it change in sympathetic harmony?

Answer 1 - Each is constantly aware of the state of the other no matter where it is in the universe. They are both conscious of each other.

Answer 2 - They both keep in sync with each because of the fundamental unity the exists between them. THE BOND OF LOVE.

The soul or Soulware of the photon demonstrates love and consciousness. The soul of each photon is aware of the soul of the other photon. The soul of each photon is committed to keeping in harmony with the soul of it entangled or non-local twin through the bond of mutual love.

In 1992 science had finally started catching up to spiritually. Five thousand years ago the Vedas and Upanishads reveal this same truth.

The truth that God is actually LOVE and CONSCIOUSNESS.

Here are 5 spiritual terms associated with God.
1) Love
2) Light
3) Consciousness
4) Omniscient
5) Omnipresent

It is amazing to think that the light emitted from your PC or laptop screen, as you read this posting, has these 5 qualities / characteristics as an intrinsic part of its nature.

That any photon pair coming from the light or glow of your computer screen can end up being present in any part of the universe and they will never lose touch with each other.

This exhibit segment, on the campus of Wits University, was inspired by the 1964 work of John Bell.

In is very interesting that in the same year 1964 Marshal McLuhan published his seminal work titled "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". In this book McLuhan speaks about the power of light. He famous quote regarding light is "The Medium is the Message". He used a light bulb to prove his point.

In 1967 he published a book titled "The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects".

Here is an apt quote from McLuhan to round off this posting.
"Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?"

Throwing light on LIGHT. Or, light's body travels at the speed of light but light's soul travels at infinite speed. No mass or energy required.

In the light of this are you focusing on your body or your soul? Now there's a can of worms to play with . . . How do we become Soul-Aware like the photon?

Any clues? Because this is where the heavy lifting is required. After all - light is lite.

THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF LOVE

In 1992 I attended a function at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the foyer of the Great Hall, where the function was being held, an exhibition had been set up. The function and exhibition was organised by the Sri Sathya Sai Organisation of South Africa.

One of the exhibit pieces was titled "Science and Spirituality"

In a section of this exhibit the issues around what we today know as Quantum Entanglement, Non-locality or quantum non-local phenomenon was highlighted.

The answer to how and why a photon pair - at opposite sides of the universe - communicate instantaneously was revealed.

As previous comments have pointed out
- infinite mass
- infinite energy
are not possible in reality.

The answer does not reside here. It cannot be found in the hardware side of nature.

If you have an error in your spreadsheet, or you cannot find a music clip on your hard drive, or you cannot find a site in the first 10 pages of Google results do you pull out the memory chips or hard drive and check them out with a magnifying glass.

No! You have to look in the software, the operating system.

The answer to this phenomena does not lie in the hardware but rather the software, the soulware or more correctly "The Soul-Aware".

Two critical questions have to be asked to find the answer to this juicy riddle of science.

Question 1 - How does the one photon know that the state of the other one has changed across billions of light years?

Question 2 - Why does it change in sympathetic harmony?

Answer 1 - Each is constantly aware of the state of the other no matter where it is in the universe. They are both conscious of each other.

Answer 2 - They both keep in sync with each because of the fundamental unity the exists between them. THE BOND OF LOVE.

The soul or Soulware of the photon demonstrates love and consciousness. The soul of each photon is aware of the soul of the other photon. The soul of each photon is committed to keeping in harmony with the soul of its entangled or non-local twin through the bond of mutual love.

In 1992 science had finally started catching up to spiritually. Five thousand years ago the Vedas and Upanishads reveal this same truth.

The truth that God is actually LOVE and CONSCIOUSNESS.

Here are 5 spiritual terms associated with God.
1) Love
2) Light
3) Consciousness
4) Omniscient
5) Omnipresent

It is amazing to think that the light emitted from your PC or laptop screen, as you read this posting, has these 5 qualities / characteristics as an intrinsic part of its nature.

That any photon pair coming from the light or glow of your computer screen can end up being present in any part of the universe and they will never lose touch with each other.

This exhibit segment, on the campus of Wits University, was inspired by the 1964 work of John Bell.

In is very interesting that in the same year 1964 Marshal McLuhan published his seminal work titled "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". In this book McLuhan speaks about the power of light. He famous quote regarding light is "The Medium is the Message". He used a light bulb to prove his point.

In 1967 he published a book titled "The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects".

Here is an apt quote from McLuhan to round off this posting. "Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?"

Throwing light on LIGHT. Or, light's body travels at the speed of light but light's soul travels at infinite speed. No mass or energy required.

In the light of this are you focusing on your body or your soul? Now there's a can of worms to play with . . . How do we become Soul-Aware like the photon?

Any clues? Because this is where the heavy lifting is required. After all - light is lite.

Time is real. We know this because it is not an independent actor on the stage that is our universe. It is intimately related and inseparable form space; hence the term space-time. According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, Time is a type of motion; that is, we “move” through it. Simultaneously, we move through three spatial dimensions as well. In fact, we share motion through all 4 dimensions. And as we move faster through one dimension we move slower through the others. The sum of our 4 dimensional motion equals that of the speed of light. It is this sharing of motion through 4 dimensions along with the speed of light being constant that makes our world Relative. This relationship has been experimentally verified repeatedly. One of the more famous experiment was conducted using atomic clocks that flew on transatlantic flights which were then compared to atomic clocks that stayed on the ground. They had found discrepancies in the time kept by the ones on the planes that match up perfectly with predictions made from Einstein’s equations. All these experiments proved that you cannot describe one without the other. So if space is real, then time is real and vice versa.

Also, light is not directly subject to gravity because it has no mass. Mass warps space, which in turn bends the path that light travels on.

From the point of view of the traveller, it's easy to go as many times the speed of light as desired, accelerating in apparently perfectly normal fashion. But if you crossed the galaxy in 10 minutes by your own clock, you'd discover on decelerating that over 100,000 years had passed for the rest of the universe.
While in flight, if you could still see the environment, you'd notice stars and things moving around at many times normal speeds, performing implausible manoeuvres. Dodging them would be a chore!

pertaining to the idea of light speed travel, anyhting going light speed sees something else traveling at lightspeed as going lightspeed in comparison to it, so going light speed in itself is somewhat of a paradox because if you have 2 packets going lightspeed then to each one the other is going double lightspeed so while to us they are going the same speed to one the other gets to its destoination twice as fast as it does and same to the other so having 2 time and space recording devides they both end up going infinitely fast

1. Make the computer 2. Figure out a use for said computer 3. Get response of......42. How would we engineer something based off the principles of quantum entaglement and control wich particle are linked in any close proximety. Its all theory build on and waiting for the medium, but a refractive index of one or less than one just might be beyond us; then again mankind was never meant to be tossed out into space in a tin can.

Brian H,
What you said I can not find any way to make it make sence.

From the way i see things, there are 2 things you gotta consider here..

The speed the person is moving.
The rate at which your lifespan ticks.

All life and objects have there own lifespans which tick at near the same rate as other life and objects of the same type.

If a human crossed the galaxy in 10 minutes by your own clock, then isent your clock also the same as everyone elses clock on earth, so if its 10 minutes for you then its 10 minutes for everyone else. This is a fact in my mind..

Basicly the only way to make what you said make any sence is if you did not travel really fast but at a normal speed and some how if the rate at which your life ticks away is slowed down, if it could be done. Then it would feel like it was only 10 minutes but it was actually 100,000 years or what ever the case is. So what you have said would actually be this senario..

I think people get mixed up when the speed of light gets involved because light is a visual thing.. No one says anything about the speed of sound. In fact they are just speeds and have nothing to do with time travel. Although if you could make a bubble around your body for example which also spread threw your body affecting the atoms of which then slowed down the rate at which your life ticks away? maybe, in a sence creating a relative space/time for only you, then I would say time travel could exisit.

I started to understand the fact that you could not go back in time after reading this. At lest I think its a fact. web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/cooling.html

It makes sence that if te atoms which make up the particals are completely stopped then the rate the lifespan ticks away would also come to a stop, but if you stop the atom and it starts to go reverse then it will still have energy and the rate of the lifespan would just continue.. and so going back to the future in my mind is not an option. but visually seeing the past might be if you could move faster then light.

'Technology Review can't figure out exactly what to do with such a hypercomputer, and frankly neither can we.'

Well, the NSA and other government snoops can figure out how to use this thing. To try to break every encrypted message traveling across the web.

"There once was a young man named Dwight, who could travel faster than the speed of light, he set off one day, in a relative way, and returned the previous night."

That limerick I heard when I was in the 3rd grade back in the 70's has since entertained as well as annoyed me...

Newton who died in 1727, still has his work utilized as well as argued/debated...Einstien published special relativity in 1905, and I have a feeling that his work will be utilized and argued/debated for at least the same amount of time as Newton's.

Thanks PopSci for this article...it entertains and annoys...the posts to this article are very indicative as to why PopSci would hopefully be posting more of these types of thought provokers...I like the posts to the article more than the article. I also hope someone builds a computer using this stated theory, sooner than later...

What annoys is how humanity seems to know only a little bit more than collective knowledge that existed when I was in the 3rd grade back in the 70's...No Jetson type vehicles here in 2010, the grand "Internet" is a pretty decent achievement and all, but computational advances in computers seems no where near being as exponetial as it could be or should be concerning advances...

This jaded knucklehead could easily figure out something to do with a hypercomputer or quantum computer...

Regardless of what some may say or believe for that matter, everything is made up of energy light itself is a form of energy and it is floating by at an incredible speed however I do believe that it's possible to break the speed of light regardless of what as i said some may believe or say, if everything is made up of energy even light itself something gives light a form of energy to propel itself at these massive speeds so therefore every type of energy is capable in one way or another to travel this speed or faster regardless sorry to say it but yes it is possible regardless. energy is energy in it's base purest form people need to remember that, just because it hasn't been done doesn't mean it's not possible look back a couple hundred years and then look at now, things that were said to be physically impossible have manifested themself into reality. I could go in and get really technical on the matter to prove this is possible but will lose almost all of you in the process, even einstein has statements on it's possibility however people must remember einstein knew alot more than he told us, as he said in his own words what he knew if he was to let everyone know could be devestating to the world which is one of the reasons he only gave the equation for the manhattan project and didn't tell them how to create it because he knew the outcome, just as is said he had a working unified theory but wouldn't reveal the secrets.....

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Do we really need to push further and further with speed. I must question the desire for human beings to beat the time clock, not just with computing, but with any aspect of life. We have sports people almost destroying their bodies in aid of speed, we have many killing and or maiming themselves on our roads in the aid of speed. Computing is a wonderful medium, but lets keep a balance. I am already reading about the current generation having to learn social skills as they have spent the best part of their social engagement over the net. Businesses are now seeking attributes in people that are predominately social and engaging, further indication that we have swung too far away from the balance between social connections and technology.

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NSA is making that prove as it our generation & technology is going ahead to the Nature. i think this is amazing to know about they going to make its faster than light.

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Ok folks, here's a question from a complete moron. As we travel closer to the speed of light, don't we also travel through light frequency? meaning your human flesh at one point is focused through the Gamma level....umm wouldn't that give your fragile body a lethal amount of radiation?
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When scientists will think up as it to realise, sweep up sequence. At first the new technics show at cinema or describe in books, and then scientists realise these ideas, so a fantasy and a science not far apart
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I believe the end of the BIOS chip is not far away. A new technology called UEFI is going to be replacing it meaning that a machine can start in literally just a few seconds!

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