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#1 11 January 2005 - 02:14 PM luc 


Meson
I read here and there that massless vector bosons carrying forces (e.g., the photon carrying electromagnetic force, or (if exist) the graviton carrying gravity force) can travel faster than light. I have never read tho' if there's a limit for that velocity, so I'm interested to know that limit, what's the maximum velocity that can acquire virtual particles

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#2 11 January 2005 - 02:23 PM ydoaPs 


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how can light travel faster than THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN A VACUUM? it just doesn't make any sense.
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#3 11 January 2005 - 02:28 PM luc 


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how can light travel faster than THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN A VACUUM? it just doesn't make any sense

http://math.ucr.edu/..._particles.html
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#4 11 January 2005 - 04:20 PM Severian 


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Virtual particles don't travel faster than light.

The link to which you refer discusses the collapse of the particle's wavefunction, and explains that even though that collapse is faster than light (instantaneous) there is no information flow, so there is no contradiction.
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