01 May 1969 • page 43
Physics Today 22, 5, 43 (1969); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3035574
FOR MANY DECADES now the view has prevailed that no particle could possibly travel with a velocity greater than the velocity of light in vacuum, c = 3×108m/sec. It is generally held that this limitation is a direct consequence of the special theory of relativity. Albert Einstein himself has said so in his original paper on relativity.
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