Okay, I got to thinking about this the other day, Einstein’s theory of relativity basically says that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Quantum mechanics says that the beliefs of the experimenters can influence the results of the experiment. So, let’s say get a bunch of the top physicists in the world, hypnotize them to make them believe that FTL travel is possible and turn 'em loose with a bunch of research grants and tell 'em that if they don’t come up with a drive that works we’ll take away their pocket protectors!
Now, is there even the slightest possibility that this would work? If there is, I’m up for doing a little kidnapping.
No. It doesn’t say anything like that. It says that observation causes an irreversible collapse of the wave. This has nothing to do with their beliefs. If their beliefs affected the observations, then QM effects would never have been observed in the first place. QM effects are believed because they are observed, not the other way around.
True in a vacuum, but when passing through some medium (like a gas, for example) it is possible for a material object to travel faster than the speed of light in that medium.