Unfortunately, relativity doesn't just prohibit matter from exceeding the speed of light--it also prohibits information from traveling faster than light.
Nope. See "Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory" by Dennis Overbye in The New York Times from December 27, 2005.
Physicists found that "atoms were each spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time. Moreover, ... they were all doing whatever it was they were doing together, in perfect synchrony. Should one of them realize ... that it is in a metaphysically untenable situation and decide to spin only one way, the rest would instantly fall in line, whether they were across a test tube or across the galaxy.
"The idea that measuring the properties of one particle could instantaneously change the properties of another one (or a whole bunch) far away is strange to say the least — almost as strange as the notion of particles spinning in 2 directions at once. The team that pulled off the beryllium feat ... hailed it as another step toward computers that would use quantum magic to perform calculations."
