Yeah, but at those distances it actually does travel faster than light some of the time.Sidhe said:As far as I understand it light as it propogates is always equal to c, its only absorption and reemission that "slows" it, and light is never travelling at less than c when it's actually re-emitted or in motion, as to how this experimental evidence indicates travel faster than light I have no idea, suffice to say as far as I know it, it is as stated by others an illusion probably brought about by a misunderstanding of super position. I'll do what all laymen do in this situation go ask someone more educated than me. I'll get back to you.
Invoking other dimensions is fraught with experimental peril, KISS or at the very least keep it real and not imaginary.
See, in the relatively short distances between atoms, you cannot know the position and momentum of a particle at any point in time. Therefore the position of a photon must be given as a cloud of where it might be. While the net slope of the line must be c, the slope of one edge of the cloud to the other may be greater than c. Therefore if light does not follow the strait path, which would be improbable given so many other possible paths, then light necessarily temporarily exceeds c.
