reply to post by RusytyShackleford
i agree with half of your post light does exsists as both wave and particle and the acts of observation callopses the wave function ..
I dont think its prudent to apply quantum mechanics to such vast distances as they are not married correctly..........................yet.....
Quantum mechanics is the very small and 21,000 light years is the very big

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to your final point 'nothing can travel faster than the speed of light'....
this is because light is a constant ? right?
last year scientists slowed down the speed of light officially!
during quantum observations linked particles that are seperated by distances show instant responses to change in spin ... you turn a particle one
way and the other instantly reacts ..
so these particles ARE linked via a form of information travelling Faster than the speed of light. .. Thus something is breaking the light barrier ..
thus something 'CAN' travel faster than the speed of light.
just a few ideas
[edit on 22/5/08 by Quantum_Squirrel]