In our previous article, we discussed some of the weird and counterintuitive quantum phenomena using simple scenarios for better clarification and understanding, these phenomena are only observable in the quantum world but to this day, it is not known why the quantum world behaves the way it behaves, most especially it's probabilistic nature. However, some scientists, including I have gone as far as trying to rewrite the foundations of the quantum mechanical laws/investigating why it (quantum world) is the way it is. To my surprise, the reason perhaps could be that elementary particles actually move faster than the vacuum speed of light but not in the way of violating Einstein's theory of special relativity which now has strong experimental footing.
Modern physics with respect to Einstein's theory of special relativity makes to know that massive objects cannot move at the vacuum speed of light and that in the classical world the maximum speed limit is also the vacuum speed of light - which brings about the constancy of the speed of light, in fact the theory of special relativity is a generalised theory of Newtonian Dynamics at all inertial reference frames(uniformly moving bodies) and the much more generalised theory being general relativity, which holds for non-inertial(accelerating) reference frames.
Well, if you observe closely, the theory (special relativity) specifically talks about "mass" and the "vacuum speed of light" being the maximum speed limit but we also know that elementary/subatomic particles also possesses another fundamental property called "charge". The charge just like mass, possesses a field around it (electric field) and if you observe the equations of the electric field and the Newton's gravitational field (since general relativity approximates to it at less massive scales), you would observe that they are kind of mimicking each other, charge looks like mass in another world but we call this world the electric world. Now, let's assume we had a particle with a charge but with no mass, the question then is, what is the speed range of this kind of particle in it's own world ?.
Tricky question right ?
Well, if you were like me and you took an educated guess, by saying that the speed range of this kind of particle, is that the minimum speed limit of this particle is the vacuum speed of light (instead of the vacuum speed of light being the maximum speed limit as in the case of the particle with only mass) and combining some other technical principles, then every of the quantum mechanical phenomena can be predicted. The core idea is that elementary/subatomic particles are moving with both the Newtonian speed (speed for only mass) and quantum speed (speed for only charge) at the same time but at different parallel worlds interconnected together, when we try to make sense of the quantum world with the principles of the Newtonian world, the weird quantum phenomena comes up.
Apart from my hypothesis, there are quantum mechanical phenomena that have been shown (both theoretically and experimentally) to suggest that faster than light principle might be at play in the quantum world and they are discussed below.
Superposition and Entanglement
When you move faster than the vacuum speed of light, weird things happens,
i. Casualty is broken - effect comes before the cause (which we all know is practically impossible in the classical world), you would have gotten to your destination before you started moving and it kind of leads to time traveling - you would be able to tell what happened in later time by communicating with the you that had already reached the destination before you started.
This kind of time traveling effect seems to have a role in the delayed choice experiment - an extension of the double slit experiment.
ii. You can be everywhere at the same time, in our previous example, you reached your destination before you started moving, this implies that you are both at your destination and at your starting point at the same time and from my hypothesis (discussed earlier) you can be at multiple places at the same time, depending on your Newtonian speed.
This leads to the so called "superposition of states", which also leads to "entanglement" as discussed in our previous article. As a matter of fact, experiment has shown that speeds necessary for entanglement/quantum non-local connection to take place are at least 10,000 times the speed of light.
Quantum tunneling
We discussed about this phenomenon in our previous article, a recent experiment has shown that quantum tunneling supports faster than light principle, that is when you take the ratio of the tunneling distance to the tunneling time, it yields speeds greater than the vacuum speed of light. For more informations see here.
There are other quantum phenomena that supports faster than light principle(s) which can be found in the references at the end of this article. However, some scientists including some of the early founders of quantum mechanics - Einstein and Schrodinger, refused to accept the faster than light explanation principle because they believe(d) it would violate Einstein's principles of special relativity. I on the other hand have shown in my research papers that faster than light principle can be incorporated into modern physics without violating the principles of special relativity - the mathematics can be constructed well.
For further reading
Faster-than-light, including quantum mechanical principles that supports it
For those interested in my research papers
Electromagnetism as the key to understanding the quantum world
Introduction to the basic principles of thermoelectricity and statistical electricity (edited)
Foundations of quantum mechanics revisited : mathematical reformalism
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