The concept of the speed of light is one of the most stringent “rules” in our world. We knew you could slow light down or bend it as is goes through another substance. But this experiment obliterated the earlier rule. The speed of light wasn’t exceeded by a factor of 10% or even double. It was exceeded by 300 times faster.Scientists have finally exceeded the speed of light, causing a light pulse to travel hundreds of times faster than normal.
It raced so fast the pulse exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it. The experiment is the first-ever evidence of faster-than-light motion.
The result appears to be at odds with one of the basic principles of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, about 186,000 miles per second.
However, Lijun Wang, one of the scientists from the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says their findings are not at odds with Einstein. She says their experiment only disproves the general misconception that nothing can move faster than the speed of light…
The NEC experiment caused a pulse of light, a group of waves with no mass, to go faster than light.
For the experiment, the researchers manipulated a vapour of laser-irradiated atoms that boost the speed of light waves causing a pulse that shoots through the vapour about 300 times faster than it would take the pulse to go the same distance in a vacuum…
We too frequently express with our words and with our thoughts the current situation thinking that we are simply being realistic and describing the current circumstance. However, when we engage in this description, whether good or bad, we are creating more of the same in our life.
We are hindered by the misconception that our description of the future must be kept in the realm of reality. What we fail to understand is that our perception is only that. It is only our perception. If we change our verbiage and our thoughts to reach far beyond our current situation we begin to create a reality far beyond where we are living right now. The real question is, “what are the limits of your imagination?” If the speed of light can be exceeded by 300 times, by what kind of factor can you increase your success?
When we approach challenges in our lives, government, politics, business, sports, how restricted are we by perceptions of "that is how it has always been done," "there is no other way," or "that is not possible? We need to let go of those restrictions and look to the impossible and ask "How?!"
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