faster-than-light

Adjective

Meaning

faster-than-light (comparative form only)

Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.

Alternative names

faster than light

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Examples

If you see firm evidence of neutrinos arriving at the detector before they are sent, that can't happen in a Steady steady state cosmology, so the [[w:Big Bang|big bang has to be right. Or equivalently, no faster-than-light neutrinos, no big bang. Jayant Narlikar

Because it depends on classical communication, which can proceed no faster than the speed of light, it cannot be used for faster-than-light transport or communication of classical bits. Source: Internet

Costigan & Bradley's lack of comment when they discover that the ship they are on has passed the speed of light, February p. 84, p. 168. This is the first mention in the story of faster-than-light travel. Source: Internet

Despite having no faster-than-light propagation, such fields are referred to simply as "tachyons" in many sources. Source: Internet

Earth is in 'The Slow Zone', in which faster-than-light (FTL) travel cannot be achieved. Source: Internet

For instance, it was the first science fiction picture to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation. Source: Internet

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