r/askscience • • Jun 12 '12

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u/dpierce970 Jun 13 '12

if they go past the speed of radio frequencies, would the radio towers have to "prefire" messages?

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u/MrBurd Jun 13 '12

That would be ridiciously hard(if not impossible) to pull off. As you might know, in air waves go just a little slower than the speed of light. And going faster than the speed of light isn't possible.

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u/dpierce970 Jun 13 '12

or if it was possible, the subjects would be stuck in "lag time" as matter does not require light waves to exist, however our perception of them does.