Faster than light effects lead to violations of causality. There are very
stringent experimental constraints against such effects.
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From: "John Ross" <jross.domain.name.hidden>
To: "'Russell Standish'" <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 01:43 AM
Subject: RE: Neutrino shield idea
> I say any massless particle that has a charge supporting a Coulomb force
> must travel at the speed of light or faster because the Coulomb force
> travels at the speed of light and a charged massless particle will be
> repelled by its own Coulomb force.
>
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> From: Russell Standish [mailto:r.standish.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:04 PM
> To: John Ross
> Cc: 'Stephen Paul King'; everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> Subject: Re: Neutrino shield idea
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>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:11:04AM -0700, John Ross wrote:
> > * Only photons travel at the speed of light. (Except my tronnies that
>
> > usually go faster than the speed of light.)
>
> Who says? Any massless particle will travel at the speed of light.
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