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arxiv: 0706.0553 · v1 · submitted 2007-06-04 · 🪐 quant-ph

Can Light Signals Travel Faster than c in Nontrivial Vacuua in Flat space-time? Relativistic Causality II

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In this paper we show that the Scharnhorst effect (Vacuum with boundaries or a Casimir type vacuum) cannot be used to generate signals showing measurable faster-than-c speeds. Furthermore, we aim to show that the Scharnhorst effect would violate special relativity, by allowing for a variable speed of light in vacuum, unless one can specify a small invariant length scale. This invariant length scale would be agreed upon by all inertial observers. We hypothesize the approximate scale of the invariant length.

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