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| | Faster-than-light - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This concept is a staple of the science fiction genre, and is also the subject of ongoing scientific study. |
 | | In the context of this article, FTL refers to transmitting information or matter faster than c, a constant equal to the speed of light in a vacuum, 299,792,458 meters per second, or roughly 186,000 miles per second. |
 | | Wavefunction collapse can be viewed as an epiphenomen of quantum decoherence, which in turn is nothing more than an effect of the underlying local time evolution of the wavefunction of a system and all of its environment. |
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