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Stephen Hawking predicted that things can travel faster than the speed of light through quantum uncertainty. This is how information can escape from a black hol
by sambeau 16y ago
Stephen Hawking predicted that things can travel faster than the speed of light through quantum uncertainty. This is how information can escape from a black hole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
Put simply it works like this: light travels at a constant speed, but due to quantum uncertainty nothing is in one exact place, it 'teleports' around an average point. Thus, if it 'teleports' in the direction that the light was travelling it has moved faster than the speed of light.
- rbanffy 16y ago> if it 'teleports' in the direction that the light was travelling Yes, but those fluctuations average out very quickly.
- aerique 16y agoSo this would mean that on average nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?
- ars 16y agoNo, it means that the quantum world is very very weird. It's a strict limit, not an average. It's just that the quantum world has strange definitions of location.