superluminal

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A lot of people think that Faster-than-light (superluminal or FTL) travel is the stuff of kooky mad scientists-wanna-bes (indeed, Albert Einstein himself had declared that it is impossible).

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  • I watched the fire in the sky, and did calculations, and I told this angel that it made sense, if our ship employs some kind of superluminal transportation system The boy has walked a very long distance. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
  • Within these rules, there is no possibility of superluminal or back-in-time communication PPW demonstrate that it is relatively easy to describe an extended universe in which the Lorentz transformations are strictly observed on the brane, but not in the outside "bulk" occupied by the extra dimensions. —  AnalogSFF,October2005
  • A lot of people think that Faster-than-light (superluminal or FTL) travel is the stuff of kooky mad scientists-wanna-bes (indeed, Albert Einstein himself had declared that it is impossible). —  Neatorama
  • The superluminal transmissions are, the scientist says, "… the light version of a sonic boom." —  Centauri Dreams
  • On the other hand, DGP violates "subtle" part of the statement above, since it allows for superluminal propagation. —  博客李淼
 

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