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Although it's an admirable attempt to work around the rules of our Universe, faster-than-light communication is still an impossibility. Here's the science of why. Conceptually, quantum ...
With the laws of physics (currently) prohibiting faster-than-light travel, velocities are limited to a mere 300,000,000 ms-1. By any Earthbound measure that's very quick indeed, but it'll still ...
When Albert Einstein said that nothing travels faster than the speed of light, he didn't talk about objects that could already be traveling faster than light. This is a mind-boggling idea that ...
Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain ...
In a recent appearance on the JRE, PayPal founder Peter Thiel and Rogan discussed what an alien civilization that has cracked the code of faster-than-light travel might mean for the universe.