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Hey you guys watch your cross posting....
I dont want to read this crap from the win95 newsgroup.

On Sun, 15 Dec 1996 14:51:27 -0800, "John M. Aldrich"
<figh...@cs.com> wrote:

>Grant Schoep wrote:
>> 
>>   Hell, many though the sound barrior could be never be broken, even though
>> they new light traveled faster then sound.
>
>This has been gone over many times - the fear over the "sound barrier"
>was that it was physically impossible to design a craft that could
>withstand faster than sound flight, or that the air would not "permit" a
>physical body to travel faster than the speed of sound.  The speed of
>light was a well-known phenomenon by that time.
>
>> Aren't there sometype of particles
>> that are beleived to travel faster then light? I could easily be wrong,
>> but I thought there was something out there. Anyone know?
>
>The existence of particles that travel faster than the speed of light,
>called tachyons, has been surmised but, for obvious reasons, never
>proven.  The general thought is that because the speed of light is
>asymptotic, it cannot be attained from either side; thus tachyons are
>forever doomed to travel faster than light.  The only particles that
>seem to be able to travel at the speed of light are photons, because
>they have effectively zero mass.  Of course, there is no known way to
>slow down or speed up a photon.
>
>This is entirely consistent mathematically:  Things slower than light
>can never reach or exceed the speed of light; things faster than light
>can never reach or go below the speed of light, and light itself can
>never speed up or slow down.  (I'm not talking about the speed of light
>in various mediums here; that's a different kind of phenomenon.)
>
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