Lawbreakers?

YOU cannot break the laws of physics. But that is exactly what a group of researchers at Oxford University is trying to do—at least, according to their critics, who are shaking their heads in disbelief. John Singleton and his team at the Clarendon Laboratory are applying an unconventional theory to build a tabletop device which is expected to do two remarkable things. It will emit radiation across a vast range of the electromagnetic spectrum; and the intensity of some of this radiation will diminish with distance much more slowly than is usually the case. Such a device would have numerous applications.