I remember seeing a spot on tv news several years ago about a small group of researchers who claimed they had sent an audio signal (human voice from a recording I believe) through a transmitter device which emitted the signal several microseconds BEFORE they had sent it!
As I recall, they said microwaves were somehow employed to allegedly accomplish this feat.
Even if FTL is possible, would not the fact that humans perceive time as linear preclude their being able to notice this effect -- since they themselves were not sent through the device along with the signal?
I think either their equipment was out of calibration, in which case the joke's on them, poor bastards, or they flat out fudged the numbers. If this were real and recreatable in the lab, one would think we'd be hearing about its progress virtually every week. It seems to me, therefore, that this has gone the way of the infamous cold fusion experiments which initially generated such furor.
Anyone care to take a stab at how a communications phenomenon like this could be measured??
-Ray