(Phys.org) —Physicist James Franson of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has captured the attention of the physics community by posting an article to the peer-reviewed New Journal of Physics in which he claims to have found evidence that suggests the speed of light as described by the theory of general …

Dark matter and dark energy may have driven inflation, the exponential expansion of the Universe moments after the Big Bang. A new cosmological model proposed by physicists, which takes dark inflation into account, is the first to outline a precise chronology of the main events during the early history of our Universe.

Meanwhile, dark energy is a repulsive force — a sort of anti-gravity — that drives the universe’s ever-accelerating expansion. Dark energy is the far more dominant force of the two, accounting for roughly 68 percent of the universe’s total mass and energy. Dark matter makes up 27 percent.

I’ve read that it takes about 100 to 250 milliseconds for the brain to complete one “thought”. Since you have 100 billion biological CPU cores all running in parallel, that would be roughly like one core running at something like 400 to 1,000 GHz.

But to achieve true backward time travel, we’ll have to go even faster! So, simply going faster than light does not inherently lead to backwards time travel. Very specific conditions must be met—and, of course, the speed of light remains the maximum speed of anything with mass.

In principle, shadows can move faster than the speed of light. When a shadow is bigger than the object casting it, it moves at a greater distance but in the same amount of time. If the shadow is large enough, it could move across the surface faster than light.

Sound and light are similar in that both are forms of energy that travel in waves. They both have properties of wavelength, freqency and amplitude. Sound can only travel through a medium (substance) while light can travel through empty space. Sound is a form of mechanical energy caused by vibrations of matter.

Answer 3: Light travels through empty space at 186,000 miles per second. The electricity which flows through the wires in your homes and appliances travels much slower: only about 1/100 th the speed of light.

Special relativity states that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. If something were to exceed this limit, it would move backward in time, according to the theory.

Even at low voltages, electricity can in fact travel through a perfect vacuum. At low voltages though electrons flow invisible. A vacuum arc can occur if the electric field is sufficient to cause field electron emission.

Electricity is a flow of electrons. Electrons can flow across a vacuum. They need to leap because the vacuum is a perfect insulator and so there is no medium in which they can flow (like through a metal conductor) so they must aquire all of the energy necessary to cover the distance before they can escape the cathode.