Phenomenon called quantum tunneling makes photons exceed light speed
August 16, 2007 | Filed under News
It seems two clever German scientist claim to have made photons exceed light speed, how they did this was with a phenomenon which is called quantum tunneling. The scientists came across this breakthrough one day when they were conducting an experiment which used a process which used both microwave photons and prisms.
Mostly the photons were reflected back off a pair of prisms, both of which were positioned with a gap in between. However some managed to tunnel through and reached their destination at the same time as the reflected ones, even though they had traveled a greater distance, the result quantum tunneling.
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Eventually this claim of exceeding the speed of light will be disproven. What has resulted is the appearance that specific photons have exceeded the speed of light. However, this is true only from the perspective of the point of generation. Experiments such as this which measure only the resulting impact points in time fail to take into account the effective distance travelled.