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Old March 1st, 2001, 01:25 AM

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Default Re: Theoretical Physics [OT thread]

The information contained in a particle of any type includes its spin and mass. A particle can't travel faster than light. It can make light speed in the case of a photon, but travelling faster than light is against the rules.
Any subatomic particle is subject to uncertainty (it don't know where it is or it don't its vector). A wavefront of a particle would be smeared out in a probabilistic sense, so that the point at which the detector sees it is a critical probability threshhold. The uncertainty may allow the particle to appear to move faster than c, but it isn't. If you measured enough wavefronts and eliminated all that were slower than light speed you could come up with some evidence that your chosen wave was breaking the rules but on average everything stays below light speed.
This concludes my dogmatic and incomprehensible rant about stuff + things.
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