In pre-relativity times, Thomson, Heaviside, and Sommerfeld, among others, had examined questions arising from the assumption that a particle may move faster than the velocity of light in vacuo. Such a hypothesis is reexamined in the framework of classical (nonquantum) theory of special relativity.

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