This is not to advocate that Einstein’s speed limit be set at infinity and Planck’s constant at zero, which would be the equivalent of maintaining that Newton was right after all. Those physicists most committed over the last several decades to proving superluminal velocities have been amongst those most committed to ridding physics of all the weirdness quantum mechanics and relativity theory have given rise to; while others have wanted to use such velocities to provide common sense explanations of paranormal phenomena. The recent “light traveling faster than the speed of light” experiment is highly relevant to the involved issues. What this transluminal light experiment demonstrates (i.e., that a simple-identity left a simple-location in simply-connected space “ before” it got “ there” in simply-connected linear-time) is that the physicist’s notions of the properties of time and identity are wrong. The very idea of superluminal light is easily regarded as an intellectual subterfuge designed to save the common sense understanding of passive passing linear-time and the post-Renaissance Western notion of individualism as the only permissible position on the nature of identity. According to the present cascade theory, the spatial effects physicists look for in superluminal velocities occur, not at such velocities, but at limiting accelerations and limiting time rates of change of acceleration, the values thereof in question being calculated, like the speed of light, relative to that limited spacetime domain defined in terms of the Planck length and the cosmological limit.The questions are, however: are the Planck length and the cosmological limit single-valued or multivalued? and if multivalued, are these multiple values related to self-reentry and fractal dimensions? One also wonders whether stopping and storing light, as has recently been reported, will hold a wealth of surprises: m-valued-logic computing is universes of discourse up, up, and away from merely faster binary switches. Electromagnetically-induced transparency in gases used to stop and store light is a small shadow of the identity transparency lurking in stopped light. If the notion of superluminal light is designed to save the common sense understanding of passive passing linear-time, then perhaps simply-stopped light (that with no perceived consequences for topology of the spatial neighborhood) is subliminally designed to save the notion that the Newtonian institutionalization and associated economics can remain viable as quantum-relativity physics makes over the technosphere.

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