Article: Faster than what?(particles appear to travel faster than light and other oddities of quantum mechanics)

Science: New experiments threaten to confound the strange-but-true laws of quantum mechanics

SAY YOU'RE THE EDITOR OF A SCIENCE journal deciding whether studies arriving over the transom deserve to be published--or forwarded to "The X-Files." And say that this morning's FedEx delivers a paper reporting that a beam of light traveled faster than--how to put this?--faster than the speed of light. Then your e-mail brings a paper describing how a particle of fight--navigating an obstacle course of slits and detectors--"knows" what lies ahead of it. At quitting time, your fax shrieks with an arriving P.S.: in that last experiment, the authors add, you can change the past. ...

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