A team of physicists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have reaffirmed Einstein’s theory that nothing can travel faster than light.
Not Terminators. Not DeLoreans. Not even Austin Powers.
This team, led by Prof. Shengwang Du, tested a single photon’s capacity for speed and determined that even in a vacuum, the photon’s velocity could not surpass the speed of light. As Du stated in a press release from the university, “…our results bring a closure to the debate on the true speed of information carried by a single photon.”