There Is No Speed Barrier In The Universe
by
Florentin Smarandache
University of New Mexico, USA

In this short paper one promotes the hypothesis: There is no speed barrier in the universe, and one asks if it's possible to have an infinite speed? What's new in science (physics)? According to researchers from the University of Innsbruck in Austria (December 1997): - photon is a bit of light, the quantum of electromagnetic radiation (quantum is the smallest amount of energy that a system can gain or lose); - polarization refers to the direction and characteristics of the light wave vibration; - if one uses the entanglement phenomenon, in order to transfer the polarization between two photons, then: whatever happens to one is the opposite of what happens to the other; hence, their polarizations are opposite of each other; - in quantum mechanics, objects such as subatomic particles do not have specific, fixed characteristic at any given instant in time until they are measured - suppose a certain physical process produces a pair of entangled particles A and B (having opposite or complementary characteristics), which fly off into space in the opposite direction and, when they are billions of miles apart, one measures particle A; because B is the opposite , the act of measuring A instantaneously tells B what to be; therefore those instructions would somehow have to travel between A and B faster than the speed of light; hence, one can extend the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and Bell's inequality and assert that the light speed is not a speed barrier in the universe. (If a speed b was a barrier, then we could accelerate a particle moving at that speed b, and could have the particle moving at a bigger speed.) Upon the time when one measures particle A, it is possible to construct arbitrary speeds.

We even promote the scientific hypothesis that: THERE IS NO SPEED BARRIER IN THE UNIVERSE, which would theoretically be proved by increasing, in the previous example, the distance between particles A and B as much as the universe allows it, and then measuring particle A. Now an Open Question: If the space is infinite, is the maximum speed infinite? [An early version, based on a 1972 paper, was presented at the Universidad de Blumenau, Brazil, May-June 1993, in a Tour Conference on "Paradoxism in Literature and Science"; and at the University of Kishinev, in a Scientific Conference chaired by Professors Gheorghe Ciocan, Ion Goian, and Vasile Marin, in December 1994.] References: [1] Illingworth, Valerie, editor, "Dictionary of Physics", The Penguin, London, New York, Victoria, Toronto, 1990. [2] Smarandache, Florentin, "Life at Infinite Speed", Arizona State University, Hayden Library, Special Collections, Tempe, USA, 1972. [3] Suplee, Curt, " 'Beaming Up' No Longer Science Fiction", <Albuquerque Journal>, December 11, 1997. [Published in the "Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences", Delhi, India, Vol. 17D (Physics), No. 1, p. 61, January-June 1998.]

There Is No Speed Barrier In The Universe

Date received: September 26, 2000