The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that a Los Alamos National Laboratory  scientist made radio waves travel faster than light using a polarization synchrotron. The article is HERE.

"Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radio waves in pulses, but what we don't know is why these pulses are so bright or why they travel such long distances," Singleton said. "What we think is these are transmitting the same way our machine does."

The article is outstanding.  Maybe this will hold up.

Can't I encode information in a radio wave? Like a voice? Like music? How about turning it on and off, real fast? Doesn't that provide binary information, faster than the speed of light?

This could be fascinating. I wonder if Einstein wasn't accidentally holding us back in some instances?

I find this very exciting. If it proves out, the ramifications are enormous. FTL communications for a start plus the fact that if radio can be FTL what else. The speed of light may not be an absolute......at least not for everything.

There should be enormous interest and excitement in this news.....where is it? Where is the wonder?

This is very cool. I've heard about the appearance of FTL with waves that travel faster than light while no individual particle does before. I'm a bit surprised by this statement though:


Right ... no one ever thought about FTL travel before. Has this guy never read any science fiction? Never seen star trek?

FTL radio? Does that mean we get to hear the news before it happens? If so, I'll be listening for the lottery results...