Faster Than What
Fodder for “The X-Files”? Not in today’s physics. Physics parted company with common sense in the 1920s, when such giants of modern science as Niels Bohr, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg discovered quantum mechanics. This science of subatomic particles took a wrecking ball to all sorts of ideas we take for granted, such as the belief that particles have both a definite location and a definite momentum. This is the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle....