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What's faster than light? The current of a pulsar.

2010, January 20 - 10:35am — Greg Kontos
Features: Current EventsCritical Path Innovation: PhysicsInstitutions: Los Alamos National LaboratoryPeople: John Singleton, Andrea Schmidt
Pulsar (NASA)

John Singleton and Andrea Schmidt of Los Alamos National Laboratory are presenting research on the process behind pulsar light emission. This research will be presented at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Their research explains a new theory for understanding the data collected regarding pulsar light emissions. Their theory is that the rotating magnetic field of a pulsar create a faster than light current of charged particles. According to MSNBC, the fields create a current which causes positively charged atoms to move in one direction and negatively charged atoms to move in another direction. This wave movement is, in sum total, faster than light.

It sounds a little like electricity to me.


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2010, May 21 - 4:57pm — BlueGoose (not verified)

Faster than light

I say yes there is one thing that's faster than light .. now with that said I am not a professor or even higher educated ..

but i use commonsense for this .. and basically we can see it in the universe.

here is what I mean ... if nothing is faster than light then how can it be that a black hole is so fast that it even suck up all the light.
so what we need to do more is study black holes I think if we learn how it moves how it really works we understand TIME, SPACE, Dimension.

I know that a very large star if it dies in a certain way it leaves a blackhole

if there is a way to copy the energie we can learn more and maybe reach a level how to use this energy.
remember ... 500 years ago we thought the world was flat. 100 years ago we thought we couldn't fly .. 50 years ago we thought flying faster than sound of speed was impossible . just imagine what might comes tomorrow .....

we can't put barriers in front of us we always have to think of a way
how it would be possible to recreate or create something to over come our self.

BlueGoose

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