Faster-than-light pulsar radio waves - Polidicks

And you thought you couldn't go faster than light [IMG]http://i.neoseeker.com/n/1/pulsar.jpg[/IMG] [quote]Astrophysicists working out of the University of Texas at Brownsville have been studying an interesting pulsar about 10,000 light years away from us (a pulsar is a highly magnetic, spinning corpse of a dead star). Over the course of three days of monitoring, radio waves emitted from the pulsar seem to have been traveling faster than the speed of light. You might have heard that faster-than-light travel is impossible. This is not entirely true -- there are a couple of catches which allow for F.T.L velocities. One such catch, as originally proposed by Mr. Einstein, is that something can travel faster than light if it does not contain information. This physical law has been observed on Earth in experiments, but with this pulsar (if confirmed), this is the first time this sort of thing has been observed off of our planet. What does or does not constitute information in this context however, is the subject of both rigorous study and debate. The radio pulse from the pulsar is suspected to have picked up some of the excess speed by passing through a cloud of neutral hydrogen atoms, which causes the radio waves to increase their electromagnetic wavelength (a process called "anomalous dispersion"). (Note: pictured above is some other pulsar, not Pulsar PSR B1937+21 from this research. Pulsar PSR B1937+21 is the second fastest spinning pulsar yet cataloged, and spins about 642 times around every second.)[/quote] Source [URL]http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12841-faster-than-light-pulsar-radio-waves-found-/[/URL]

Still can't be faster than a virgin in bed

I don't think anyone saw that one coming.

that just doesnt sound good on the tongue [i]flash can run [b]FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF PULSAR RADIO WAVES[/b][/i]

Can anyone say Ender's Game?

Finally we draw closer to F.T.L drives as seen in StarGate: Universe.

We've known that things can go faster than the speed of light for a long time now.

[QUOTE=Foogooman;19830074]We've known that things can go faster than the speed of light for a long time now.[/QUOTE] yeah but the important part: [quote]but with this pulsar (if confirmed), this is the first time this sort of thing has been observed off of our planet.[/quote]

FTL-DRIVES! Fuck yeah!

[QUOTE=Foogooman;19830074]We've known that things can go faster than the speed of light for a long time now.[/QUOTE] True, the LHC said something like that a year ago.

[QUOTE=Foogooman;19830074]We've known that things can go faster than the speed of light for a long time now.[/QUOTE] But still, nothing is actually moving faster than c. By the looks of it, it's just light propagating through a medium faster than c/refractionIndex which isn't really that amazing.

I thought if you go faster than light you go back in time?

:flashfact:

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;19830456]I thought if you go faster than light you go back in time?[/QUOTE] If that is true, i will tell my self in the past to make a FP account in 05

so incredibly fake I mean wow you CANT do that.

Ansible here we come! :eng101:

Einstein don't know shit. We'll be faster than light soon enough.

It is the end times

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;19830456]I thought if you go faster than light you go back in time?[/QUOTE] It only looks like you're going back in time, but time always goes at the same pace, it's only light that plays the illusion. Enders Game showed how this would work. If your friend stayed on Earth and you got on a spaceship that went two light years in one year(Twice the speed of light) and you sent him a message exactly one year after you left using a device that [I]instantly[/I] sends a message no matter where someone is at (The Ansible from Enders Game), he would have gotton the message exactly one year after you left at the exact same time you sent it.

[QUOTE=Foogooman;19830074]We've known that things can go faster than the speed of light for a long time now.[/QUOTE] Always you smart-ass people gotta break it up in the middle of us all excited up and shit.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;19831123]If that is true, i will tell my self in the past to make a FP account in 05[/QUOTE] It worked.

s[quote=jessesmith1;19829545]that just doesnt sound good on the tongue [I]flash can run [B]faster than the speed of pulsar radio waves[/B][/I][/quote] [I][B]- PASSING THROUGH A CLOUD OF NEUTRAL HYDROGEN ATOMS [/B][/I]

suck it einstein!

We should borrow some and dominate the Olympics for the next century.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;19834665]suck it einstein![/QUOTE] Read the article, it says [quote]One such catch, as originally proposed by Mr. Einstein, is that something can travel faster than light if it does not contain information[/quote]

[QUOTE=Pepin;19834895]Read the article, it says[/QUOTE] Chances are that Einstein wasn't 100% correct about everything he said... (Disagree's/Boxes incoming!)

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;19834797]We should borrow some and dominate the Olympics for the next century.[/QUOTE] What are we gonna do, use pulsar radio waves to demoralize the other competitors? Or convince our own athletes to try and ride a radio wave?

[QUOTE=Rubs10;19833332]It only looks like you're going back in time, but time always goes at the same pace, it's only light that plays the illusion. Enders Game showed how this would work. If your friend stayed on Earth and you got on a spaceship that went two light years in one year(Twice the speed of light) and you sent him a message exactly one year after you left using a device that [I]instantly[/I] sends a message no matter where someone is at (The Ansible from Enders Game), he would have gotton the message exactly one year after you left at the exact same time you sent it.[/QUOTE] :psyboom:

I'm going to go to sleep now and revamp the way I thought the universe worked. Good night.

can someone fucking tell me what this means? how the hell do radio waves NOT carry information? where's the source? the universe is a fucking lie. :psyboom: