I'm still awaiting an astronomical related explaination for Feynman's concept (?) of photons in the lab where waves (non material or nonenergy) travel out in all directions from the emitter and then one of them comes back faster than light with a signed agreement accepting receipt of the photon which then arrives in a timely fashion at the accepted recipient atom. Or - something of that nature.

It would seem that in the intergalactic realm that this photon emitted billions of years ago that wound up tweaking my ccd camera's photosite would have had to have a 'pilot wave?' travel out into the future in order to determine that a planet would be there with lifeforms that didn't exist when the photon was emitted just in time for that photon to impact an atom that used to be in the middle of the planet or perhaps was about to form into a planet. Then that 'pilot wave?' had to travel back through time and space and let the emitting atom know just where that sucker was going. I guess alternatively, the little photon critter could have gone out in all directions, spreading out through space until 'detection' and then zip/zap whambam it instantaneously collapses over several billion ly down to one little spot in the middle of a 6.5 micron patch of silicon.

Oh well, perhaps it's merely the attempt to give specific attributes of individuality to one indistinguishable little critter in a bulk group of statistical data.

A more plausable Trek back-history--the ringship:

http://www.federationreference.com/s...chronology.htm
http://www.federationreference.com/f...t_status=sNYfR


Somehow, those designs seem more believable, although theser are my favs:
http://www.starfleetnet.com/

If one goes faster than light the on applying Lorentz's mass variance (if it is universal and that it can be applied to objects travelling that fast) then it seems to turn out that mass will be imagenary.

Does imagenary mass exist? If it exists how can we account for it using Higgs postulates.

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The speed of light is faster then sound.the speed of lightin a vacuum is very important.
when light passing through a transparent material like glass or air,light will have slower speed than in a vacuum.

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I'll just expand on this and mention that the speed of light hasn't really slowed down. What is happening is light is being absorbed by atoms and then reemitted. So light always travels at the speed of light (as far as I'm aware), it's just the reemission that takes time.

RB is correct. See cherenkov radiation for apparent FTL phenomenon.

Sonic boom <=> crenkov radiation
(for sound in air) (for light in a transparent media)

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Light is not limited to travelling at the speed of light. It must travel at the speed of light (in a vacuum). It seems light is a bounded wave like something.

What do you mean by the word "mass".

Light can be converted to matter and matter to light. Light has a sort of hidden mass.

From a model perspective (pre-Einstein) there are two types of mass, inertial and gravitational.

The question as to whether, some highly advanced human civilization, will be able to travel faster than light, might depend on whether inertial mass can be shielded. It is not the velocity that is the limiting factor but the changes in matter that occur when matter moves, that are the problem.

Now if VSL holds, you just need to ride near cosmic strings.