Experimental repeal of the speed limit for gravitational, electrodynamic, and quantum field interactions

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1031-1068

  Van Flandern, Tom ^a   Vigier, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a Meta Research   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Aberration; Causality; Experiments; Faster than light; Gravitation; Relativity; Speed; Superluminal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036326550     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016530625645     Document Type: Article

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