American Unitarian Conference Forum

Very interesting....if confirmed...a fundamental law of relativity could be broken....science, like religion, must be open to new facts....

http://www.dailytech.com/German+Scientis...le8487.htm

"Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz, Germany, have been researching a phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling. Two prisms are placed together. When a light is shown through the prisms, a detector picks up the light and records information about the photon. However, when the two prisms are separated, Nimtz and Stahlhofen discovered that photons would occasionally "tunnel" between the prisms -- arriving at the detector sooner than should theoretically be possible."

"Being able to violate the speed of light would undermine our current understand of space and time, and lead to a number of bizarre effects, such as being able to travel backwards in time."

Other scientists argue that "even though the quantum wave packet may have exceeded the speed of light" since no information was delivered at that speed the cosmic speed limit theory is safe.....> I'll let the braniacs argue that one.....:>

Actually it turns out that they confused group velocity for velocity.

I have no idea what that means though.

It still seems to be a crack in the "law" though...since nothing (which is basically what a quanta packet amount to) has ever documented such speed...whatever it means in the end...probably more Sci-fi scenarios utilizing the "quantum tunneling transporter" etc.

Yes.  Science and religion must both be open to new facts.

The ancients stated that man in his physical form could only travel as far as the realm of the moon. (Maybe a way of stating that we are subject to the law of light.)  To go beyond that man's form must be changed.  The laws that govern thought and/or spirit have no such limitation.  They said that we are able to go to the edges of the universe and beyond in an instant, when we learn the secret power that is within.

Just a thought that maybe science and religion can both work together in achieving greater knowledge and accomplishments.

With love,

Rev Dorris