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Observations: Faster-than-light electric currents could explain pulsars
Paper reference: [0903.0399] A new mechanism for generating broadband pulsar-like polarization
Follow up with Google on John Singleton and Andrea Schmidt.
@Witsend:
Forgotten but now revived specially for you a thought invoking paragraph in relation to our owl incompleted Photon/Light.
"When light leaves the Sun and travels to Earth in 8.3 minutes, that does not mean the photons that drove the light wave have
reached the Earth in that time; they have not. The photons that drove the light wave are still near the Sun, not yet having traveled
very far. Their movement is more like the movement of electrons in a wire. When a voltage appears at one end of a wire, it is not
because the electrons from the other end got through the wire at light speed; they did not.
What moves at light speed is the wave, not the charge carriers." R.J. Huntington
Sorry for confusion!
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