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Scientists break the speed of light

By Iain Thomson
7 March 2007 08:27AM
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Process doesn't break Einstein's theories.

Scientists at NEC have managed to get a light beam to exceed the speed of light, something once thought to be an unbreakable universal constant.

In the experiment a beam of light was passed through a specially prepared caesium atomic chamber. The beam of light arrived at the far end 62 nanoseconds sooner than would be expected under normal conditions.

"Our experiment is not at odds with Einstein's special relativity, but it does show that the generally held misconception that nothing can move faster than the speed of light is wrong," the laboratory reported.

"The statement only applies to objects with a rest mass. Light can be viewed as waves and has no mass. Therefore, it is not limited by its speed inside a vacuum."

The special chamber was cooled to as close possible to absolute zero (-273.15 Celcius). Combined with the caesium, this "rephased" the light waves, taking them beyond 186,000 miles per second.

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Respected Sir, I am confirmed that photon has mass. I have written the book "Mystery of Origin of the Universe(see, NASA ADS Astronomy service on this book ---- 1990mouu.book.....D)and published the book COMPLETE UNIFIED THEORY (pages-424, 1998). The photon equation and its converted equation can explain the all phenomena of physics and Astrophysics from the particle to the universe. Without the photon & graviton mass never it possible to find the complete unified theory. This theory proves that photon has mass. Lot of examples are there. The calculated results are nicely tallied with the traditional theories, there is no variation in decimal fraction also. I use the velocity of photon as the velocity of light taking from the Journal as constant. I am giving example here that suppose you are waking on the road with your normal speed, suddenly some one pushed you from your back side, the normal speed of you will break, whatever the speed may fast or less from your speed. Accordingly we can not say that the velocity of photon/particle is faster than the speed of light. Thank you Sir, Yours faithfully, Dated: 14/10/2008 Nirmalendu Das. Email: nirmalgopa@yahoo.co.in
iTnews - comments icon Posted by Nirmalendu Das Oct 14, 2008 9:32 PM
To, The Editor, iTnews, Austalia Sir, The CERN is a great chamber of large experiment to search the point of creation of the universe, no doubt a good step to search the truth of creation. I am giving thanks to all scientists to do hard work. But the collision between proton-proton will give some results. I already written in my book “Mystery of the world of Atom, (page- 116, 1986) that proton will break in a certain two parts and after effect with neutron, electron in a particular form and matter will create. Prof. C.J.Isham of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, The Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2Bz on behalf of the Nobel laurite Prof. Abdus Salam ( CJI/fb, 19th February, 1987) writes “ Prof. Abdus Salam has asked me to write and thank you for sending your article “ The Mystery of the world of atom” …. We have filed your work for reference in our Research Library …… my good wishes for the success of your investigations”. It is doubt to find the environment of creation of the universe or to prove the Big Bang theory. Big Bang gives us idea to go in front to search the universe. If we want to know the birth of particle, universe and then let us enter into the COMPLETE UNIFIED THEORY written by the undersigned. IMPORTANT RESEARCH POINTS: • The Complete Unified Theory (1998, pages-424) is most important which is linked with the book "Mystery of origin of the universe, page-193 " (1990mouu.book…..D, NASA ADS Astronomy Database Service) written by me. There is lot of works in my book. I calculated the Quantum circulation of Black-Hole ( 3.044x10-26 m2 s-1 ), z = 1020 = constant for the Universe, birth of million million of stars, birth of particles, birth of magnetism, mass of graviton particle, maximum mass of the universe, energy of neutron during bombardment, gamma ray energy, the mass of a photon (1.659……x10-54 gm) absorbed by plants, spectrum analysis, mass of the sun, energy radiate by the stars, cosmic energy, structure of electron, structure of electromagnetic radiation, Planck Constant, Eigen value etc. I explained the internal function of matter during emission of energy. For example, can you say, how many photons are responsible to create E into E = mc2 or what is the internal function of m , when c2 is acting with m ? The converted photon equation can explain the internal function of it. You can not know this function from any traditional theories. ? 1).. of Complete Unified Theory; It can Explain the Structure of Electron, Which is the Basic Source of all Energy Like Particles, Stars and Computer's Function, EMR etc. Nirmalendu Das S …… (Please see S-5) o www.ru.ac.bd/icecc2008/inf/Table_of_Content.pdf 2) And you can search for complete unified theory from the ---- “ SB Berlin PK – Search Short List-[ Translate ], Andy Evans. –Berlin [u.a] : Springer, 2000. Buch, 8. Complete unified theory / Nirmalendu Das. – 1. ed. – Guwahati [u.a.] : Bani Prokash, 1998 …” also. Your faithfully, Dated: 19/10/2008 Nirmalendu Das. Email: nirmalgopa@yahoo.co.in Mob: INDIA 09475089337, Siliguri, Haidarpara, 74/48, Saratpally, Meghlal Roy Road, W.No. 40, West Bengal, INDIA
iTnews - comments icon Posted by Nirmalendu DasOct 21, 2008 11:28 AM
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