> Speed of Light exceeded!!!

"Scientists at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ are reporting that they have broken the speed of light. For the experiment, the researchers manipulated a vapor of laser-irradiated atoms, causing a pulse that propagates about 300 times faster than light would travel in a vacuum. The pulse seemed to exit the chamber even before entering it." This research was published in Nature, so presumably it was peer-reviewed. It's impossible from the CBC story to determine what is being claimed. First of all they get the physics wrong by asserting that Einstein's special relativity only decrees that matter cannot exceed the speed of light. Wrong. Matter cannot touch the speed of light in vacuum; energy (e.g. light) cannot exceed it; and information cannot be transferred faster than this limit. What exactly the researchers achieved, and what they claim, can only be determined at this point by subscribers to Nature.

Possibility of Faster than Light Travel::

Option A: Ignore special relativity
Option B: Get light to go faster (Casimir vacuum)
Option C: Give up causality
Option D: Give up (absolute) relativity
Option E: Go somewhere where the speed of light is not the limit
Option F: Become faster without acceleration
Option G: Consider speed as a complex quantity
Option H: Space-time fabric