If you can send gibberish faster than light than you can send information
faster than light.

for example:

gibberish-pause--gibberish

could be binary code for '5'

or morse code for 'K'

Harry


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> A signal can propagate in arbitrary speed, if one solves a system of
> equations that doesn't take all fields in considerations. Even Maxwell
> equations allows that, in the coulomb gauge, and electric field to
> propagate faster than light. But even so, relativity is not violated, since
> the equations are still Lorentz invariant, because the magnetic part is not
> directly manifest in the solution.
>
> A similar situation happens in quantum mechanics, in free space, if you
> only look for oscillations, that is signals, rather than wave packets. A
> wave packet carries information, the measured value.
>
> In both cases you can claim to send information faster than light. This is
> a wrong claim, since you are not sending information, but just recording
> gibberish waiting for the information to appear.
>
>
>
>

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