Photons flout the light speed limit. Was Einstein Wrong? "Captain, we have a problem"

August 17, 2007

IT'S a speed record that is supposed to be impossible to break. Yet two physicists are now claiming they have propelled photons faster than the speed of light. This would be in direct violation of a key tenet of Einstein's special theory of relativity that states that nothing, under any circumstance, can exceed the speed of light.

Mark Anderson

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