Hmmm, what does Nick Herbert say in "Faster Than Light"? Does he still defend his FLASH paper where he suggested that you could do faster than light communication with a simple tabletop laser experiment? Or does he admit that it was wrong, but sees it as having been a useful step towards understanding why such things are impossible?
I get the impression the book is likely filled with a bunch of misinformation (see Lubos Motl's review of it in the comments).
Nick was a very entertaining guy, he tells a lot of jokes and comes across as pretty charismatic. But a couple times when he showed up at our physics seminars at UCSC, he asked some pretty stupid questions which made me think he doesn't really understand physics very well.
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Checking Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Light-Superluminal-Loopholes/dp/0452263174
I get the impression the book is likely filled with a bunch of misinformation (see Lubos Motl's review of it in the comments).
Nick was a very entertaining guy, he tells a lot of jokes and comes across as pretty charismatic. But a couple times when he showed up at our physics seminars at UCSC, he asked some pretty stupid questions which made me think he doesn't really understand physics very well.