Criticism of FTL Claims

ArsTechnica has up an analysis of the claims by two German scientists to have broken the light-speed barrier. Basically, it looks like the Germans forgot a few things like experimental data for others to look at and some important differences between "the speed of light in a vacuum" and "the speed of light in anything else".

Furthermore, if you analyze the components of the fields that contain the energy, you find that they do have a non-zero speed of light and it is—you guessed it—the same c that applies everywhere else in the universe.

So although this makes for an interesting physics lecture—or at least I thought it was interesting—it is not new physics and not a breakdown of special relativity.

I am hoping that this is brought to heel quickly, and does not turn into another Cold Fusion debacle.