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Wiktionary
- adj. Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.
Examples
“Books filled with incest, surrealism, brutality, and no faster-than-light drives.”
“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.”
The Guardian: Faster than light particles found, claim scientists
“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.”
The Guardian: Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment
“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.”
The Guardian: Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment
“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!”
The Huffington Post: Kevin Bermeister: Time Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science
“Talking trees, faster-than-light travel, lots of impossible stuff.”
“No jet packs (not good ones, anyway), no faster-than-light travel, no robes or unitards.”
“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
“By the time they get there, decades later, they've been overtaken by faster-than-light spaceships and Far Centaurus has long been settled.”
“That Company owes its dominance to a single strange hermit, who came up with device after device like nothing seen before—developments already leading toward interplanetary and even faster-than-light travel.”
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