The textbooks say nothing can travel faster than light, not even light itself. New experiments show that this is no longer true, raising questions about the maximum speed at which we can send information.
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Marangos, J. Faster than a speeding photon. Nature 406, 243–244 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35018657
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