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Within an axiomatic framework of kinematics, we prove that the existence of faster than light particles is logically independent of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Consequently, it is consistent with the kinematics of special…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Gergely Székely

By relativity we show that, although the superluminal motion of classical particles is forbidden, the superluminal transportation of quanta of any massive matter field is possible. Exact theoretical derivation and precise numerical…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 Qi-Ren Zhang

The possibility is discussed of superluminal motion of non-tachyonic (i.e. moving with the instantaneous speed v<c) bodies within general relativity. It is shown that in some occasions quantum field theory apparently prohibits such motion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Krasnikov

Even though the usual form of relativistic mechanics does not allow superluminal particle velocities and nonlocal interactions, these features are not forbidden by relativity itself. To understand this on a deeper level, we study a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-28 H. Nikolic

It continues to be alleged that superluminal influences of any sort would be inconsistent with special relativity for the following three reasons: (i) they would imply the existence of a distinguished' frame; (ii) they would allow the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Kent A. Peacock

An explanation for superluminal phenomena based on wave-particle duality of photons is suggested. A single photon may be regarded as a wave packet, whose spatial extension is its coherence volume. As a photon propagates as a wave train in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Hai-Long Zhao

Einstein's theory of special relativity(SR) and the principle of causality imply that the speed of any moving object can not exceed that of light in a vacuum($c$).However,there were many attempts in literature discussing the particle moving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-jiong Ni

We show that the problem of superluminal motion in causal, particle interpretation of bosonic fields is not observable at macroscopic distances.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Shojai , Mehdi Golshani

Non-relativistic de Broglie-Bohm theory describes particles moving under the guidance of the wave function. In de Broglie's original formulation, the particle dynamics is given by a first-order differential equation. In Bohm's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Sheldon Goldstein , Ward Struyve

In this paper I describe the history of the surreal trajectories problem and argue that in fact it is not a problem for Bohm's theory. More specifically, I argue that one can take the particle trajectories predicted by Bohm's theory to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey A. Barrett

While it has often been proposed that, fundamentally, Lorentz-invariance is not respected in a quantum theory of gravity, it has been difficult to reconcile deviations from Lorentz-invariance with quantum field theory. The most commonly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-02 Sabine Hossenfelder

t is shown that although the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory of motion is equivalent to standard quantum mechanics when averages of dynamical variables are taken over a Gibbs ensemble of Bohmian trajectories, the equivalence breaks down for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Partha Ghose

Experiments done with single photon in the early 1990's produced a surprising result: that single photon pass through a photon tunnel barrier with a group velocity faster than the vacuum speed of light. Recently, a series of experiments…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Xiang-Yao Wu , Xiao-Jing Liu , Bai-Jun Zhang , Yi-Heng Wu

The question of whether it is possible or not to surpass the speed of light is already centennial. The special theory of relativity took the existence of a speed limit as a principle, the light postulate, which has proven to be enormously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-29 Carlos Barceló , Stefano Finazzi , Stefano Liberati

Within an axiomatic framework, we prove that the existence of faster than light particles is consistent with (does not contradict) the dynamics of Einstein's special relativity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Judit X. Madarász , Gergely Székely

Recently, Bohmian mechanics has been challenged [Nature 643, 67 (2025)] by studying a system in which the motion of particles cannot be associated only with the gradient of phase of the wave function. We point out that, in general, Bohmian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Hrvoje Nikolic

Quantum tunneling is considered from the point of view of local realism. It is concluded that a quantum object tunneling through a potential barrier cannot be interpreted as a point-like particle because such an interpretation generates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 A. Yu. Samarin

Bohmian mechanics is a nonlocal hidden-variable interpretation of quantum theory which predicts that particles follow deterministic trajectories in spacetime. Historically, the study of Bohmian trajectories has mainly been restricted to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Joshua Foo , Estelle Asmodelle , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

We show that the particle motion in Bohmian mechanics, given by the solution of an ordinary differential equation, exists globally: For a large class of potentials the singularities of the velocity field and infinity will not be reached in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 K. Berndl , D. Dürr , S. Goldstein , G. Peruzzi , N. Zangh\`ı

While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Amrapali Sen , Matthias Salzger , Łukasz Rudnicki
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