Updated Online Information on Tachyons and Superluminal Phenomena

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Information from NASA on FTL Space Travel Research
www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/ipspaper.html

NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop
Quote: Photons have been measured to tunnel across a photonic band-
gap barrier at 1.7 times the speed of light ... . ... In addition,
recent experiments of the rest mass of the electron antineutrino have
measured an imaginary value (Stoeffl 1995). Even though this result
is attributed to possible errors, an imaginary mass value is a
signature characteristic of a tachyon. ... In the workshop it was
suggested to revisit this and other similar data to determine if this
can be credibly interpreted as evidence of tachyons. It was also
pointed out that other experiments have been suggested to search for
evidence of tachyons ... .
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/TM-97-206241.htm

Physicist Uses Electrical Pulse to Surpass Speed of Light
[ CBC News, Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:48:09 EST ]
http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2003/01/16/speed_light030116.htm
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Question: This was reported in the Canadian press in 2003, but I
don't remember hearing about it in the US. I first heard of this on
educational TV a year after the story boke in Canada. Why did we not
hear about it from the major news outlets in the US?
Discussion-group homepage for the above;
www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-43703.html

Time's Arrows, Quantum Measurement and Superluminal Behavior
Quote: More recently, superluminal behavior has beenfound in
connection with non-evanescent waves ...
www.cnr.it/sitocnr/Iservizi/Pubblicazioni/
Monografie/IngeArch_MatFis/MatematicaFisica/Time/Time_prefaz.html

Observation of Superluminal Behavior in Wave Propagation
The possibility of observing superluminal behavior in the propagation
of localized microwaves over distances of tens of wavelengths is
experimentally demonstrated.
link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4830

Superluminal Photon Propagation
Quote: This superluminal behavior does not contradict the principles
of Einstein's relativity theory, ...
www.aip.org/pnu/2000/split/pnu495-2.htm
Additional Reference - Quote: According to the NEC
researchers, "the peak of the pulse appears to leave the cell before
entering it."
killdevilhill.com/physicschat/messages2/3877.html

Anomalous Pulse Delay in Microwave Propagation
Quote: Measures of pulse delay in microwave propagation, in open air
and for short distances (not much greater than 1 m), were made by
using launcher and receiver horns. When these are facing each other
we observe a delay time corresponding to a speed equal to c while, if
the receiver horn is shifted or tilted with respect to the launcher
horn, the delay time decreases showing a superluminal behavior. ...
from the obtained results a superluminal behavior clearly emerges ...
dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.48.1453

Optical Tachyons in Parametric Amplifiers
Quote: We show that optical tachyonic dispersion corresponding to
superluminal (faster than-light) group velocities characterizes
parametrically amplifying media. The turn-on of parametric
amplification in finite media, followed by illumination by spectrally
narrow probe wavepackets, can give rise to transient tachyonic
wavepackets. In the stable (sub-threshold) operating regime of an
optical phase conjugator it is possible to transmit probe pulses with
a superluminally advanced peak, whereas conjugate reflection is
always subluminal. In the unstable (above-threshold) regime,
superluminal response occurs both in reflection and in transmission,
at times preceding the onset of exponential growth due to the
instability. Remarkably, the quantum information transmitted by probe
or conjugate pulses, albeit causal, is confined to times
corresponding to superluminal velocities. ... Thus, for the first
time a connection is laid between optical phase conjugation and
superluminal behavior.
www.weizmann.ac.il/chemphys/kozh/my_ref.html

Superluminal Photon Propagation in Inverted Media
Quote: Primary issue under investigation: Addresses the faster-than-
light hypotheses of quantum tunneling, particularly in the case of
amplification in the tunnel barrier. ... In principal, a rather
more striking superluminal behavior can be exhibited in the case of
inverted medium.
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/summ.htm

Military Applications of Post-Quantum Physics
Quote: There is now experimental evidence for post-quantum
physics. ... Remote-viewing as observed in actual U.S. military-
intelligence field operations is explained ... . ... standard quantum
theory predicts, and experiments demonstrate, that certain
counterintuitive superluminal effects exist ... .
www.qedcorp.com/Q/ChiaoBell.html

Structures in the Afterglow Peak Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Quote: The crossing of ISM inhomogeneities of sizes R~10^15 cm
occurs in a detector arrival time interval of ~0.4 s, implying an
apparent superluminal behavior ...
www.ifa.hawaii.edu/colloquia/abstracts/ruffini.txt


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