When Albert Einstein said nothing could travel faster than the speed of light, he apparently said nothing about sound waves, according to John Singleton of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, who says because radio waves do not constitute “particles and information” they are therefore exempt (in a fashion) from the universe’s ultimate speed limit.
Most people think Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but that’s not really the case, Singleton said. Einstein predicted that particles and information can’t travel faster than the speed of light – but phenomenon like radio waves? That’s a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow. Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.
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