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Why is that? Where is the proof that faster then light implies back in time?
As a stupid example, in Star Trek, they always go faster then light, but never go back in time.
Actually, last time I checked.
They didn't go faster than light. Rapid travel was done by bending space. Creating a warp, therefore it is called warp drive.
The "proof" is not intuitive, Simple, but when you think about it for a minute, it makes sense logically.
If you just shoot a photon through an empty chamber, it passes through and comes out the other side at exactly 4 p.m., for example.
But if you shoot it through the chamber described in this experiment, it actually comes out the other side before it is finished entering. So it comes out at, for example, a few nanoseconds before 4 p.m. instead of at exactly 4 p.m.
In effect, the photon has travelled back in time. We surmise that it must have traveled back in time because that's the only way it could have arrived earlier than it would have if it had not been going that fast.
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Not really.
As I read the experiment, the beam started to leave the box before it had finished entering.
That's like pushing a pencil through a box and the front coming out before the back end reaches the box.
For a small box (a matchbox for example) that is guaranteed.
For a house-sized box, you would assume that something inside is stretching the pencil... but not that the pencil travelled back in time - though both are rational possibilities.
Equally, if you have a box two light-minutes long, so that when you send a pulse into the box at 4pm, then it will come out at 4:02, and instead it comes out at 4:01, then you would normally say "it went at twice lightspeed", not "it went backwards in time by one minute" - though both are rational possibilities.
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