Tunneling Confronts Special Relativity

Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

NimtzGünter

Superluminal signal velocity is widely assumed to confront Einstein causality and thus the Special Theory of Relativity STR. Actually, there is only the tunneling mechanism known to permit superlum...

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Günter Nimtz

Superluminal signal velocity is widely assumed to confront Einstein causality and thus the Special Theory of Relativity (STR). Actually, there is only the tunneling mechanism known to permit superluminal signal velocities at present. The demonstrated negative group velocity experiments don't represent superluminal signal velocities. In those experiments only the signal's peak traveled faster than light and the signal was reshaped. In this Note we shall discuss why tunneling allows superluminal signal velocities. However, opposed to text books on STR we have shown that a superluminal signal beam does not allow the design of a time machine.

Azzam Almosallami

Through the meaning of time in the Modified Special Relativity Theory MSRT [23], we introduce an interpretation to the most problems in physics related to quantum tunneling [1-9,16], quantum entanglement [29-31], OPERA [26], ICARUS [27], and Sn 1987a [28].

Benjamin Bähr, Boris Lemmer, Rina Piccolo