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as fun as that idea is, it doesn't make sense, because the beam of light isn't an object. the photons are still moving at exactly the speed of light (as Einstein would have you think). they don't spin around with the flashlight.



Light is very much an object, as real as you and I. Just because something is massless doesn't mean it's not real. All that aside, the idea isn't that light is traveling FTL but the image that it projects is. Here's a good site on FTL; I was talking about the "shadows and light spots" idea.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html


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