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Speed of Light

NPR
Published July 18, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

For a respected physicist to suggest that it's possible for something to travel faster than light, is rather like a geologist declaring that the earth is flat. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, tomorrows issue of the prestigious journal Nature contains a paper that claims exactly that.

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