RE: FTL achieved with tunneling in dielectric prisms

Carrigan, Ken ( (no email) )
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:28:05 -0500

Jer et al,
This can not be true. LOL
I looked at his paper and there are some things unaccounted
for. There is the uW source output, couplers to waveguide,
and decouplers to uW measuring equipment. Now the air
testing there must have been couplers or waveguides to antennas,
antennas and their factors, air... , then back to antenna,
into waveguide, and then coupler coax to measurement equipment.
TOTAL time was 380ps in air, vs, 81ps in waveguide.
I know that coax has a ~.8c group velocity, but antennas? Not
to sure at all.. but bet it is less than .5c. My point is
how did he measure 'only in the air' and come up with exactly
..114/380ps = 3.00000E8! sounds too good. He should have gotten
SOME delay in the transmission lines and antennas. Sure would like
to know more about this.. as I would like to also duplicate the
measurement as I can not believe that he measured 'c' faster than 3e08m/s.

v/r Ken Carrigan
I will investigate more. Glad that H20 thing has died down, slow
death... As the water boy would say... "nothing like pure sparkling
fresh H20"

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry W. Decker [mailto:jdecker@keelynet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:35 AM
To: interact@keelynet.com
Subject: FTL achieved with tunneling in dielectric prisms

Hi Folks!

Dan LaRochelle sent this intriguing URL claiming
faster-than-light (FTL) communication (with a few brief
quotes);

http://www.compu-web.com/ftl.htm

Superluminal tunneling (faster than light transmission of
signals) was first observed at the University of Cologne
with micro-wave photons. Soon thereafter these experiments
were duplicated and validated at the University of Berkeley
and Vienna.

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