[ExI] Faster than light??

[Amara D. Angelica]

Does this raise a question regarding the parton and quark models for
baryons?

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> The real issue, however, is whether info can be transferred at a FTL
speed.
> This would be an even bigger WOW, since it would mean that special
> relativity can actually be breached...
> Stefano Vaj

There is a distinction between the concepts of an invariant speed and that
of a
maximum speed. As far as I remember special relativity only requires, for
its
consistency, that there be an invariant speed. 

Given the SR procedure of clock synchronization, in which light signals are
used, 
one might think that if FTL signals are possible, they could be used to
synchronize 
clocks in an alternative way, undermining SR at its foundations. But this is
not
the case, I guess.



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