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At 02:06 PM 2000/07/21 -0500, darwin wrote: >Sorry Bern, this isn't saying they have found a way to "travel" faster than >the speed of light. To do that, something having mass would have to be able >to go faster. Newtonian physics and the Einstein"s Theory of Relativity >doesn't allow that to happen. This experiment only showed that light could >travel faster depending on the medium it is traversing. Light has no mass >and therefore doesn't violate the law if it breaks the speed limit! > >I believe that there is an extremely high probability that we are not alone >in the universe, however, I also believe that the Creator placed these vast >distances between us and fixed the limit of travel to insure we never meet. lolo! and considering the kind of characters we attract around here it's probably a darn good thing! janet janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: "[log in to unmask]" smail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada