Did CERN just break physics?
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Someone clearly forgot to reverse the polarity on the primary injection manifolds
Oh well, another bod lost down a jefferies tube.....
I'm afraid this will turn out to be false... New Scientist will post an article why tomorrow I guess from their twitter....
http://twitter.com/#!/newscientist
http://twitter.com/#!/newscientist
Yet the research paper isn't released until tomorrow, so how can they counter it so quickly?
Maybe they finally reversed the polarity on the primary injection manifolds.
RIP, jefferies tube bod
The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few......or the one.
Yes, the irony of scientific method (or the publically pimped one, anyway)...
Year 1: "We know X for a certainty. It's scientific fact... an absolute."
Year 2: "Yeah... whoops. But this just shows that... errr... yeah!"
Despite what the scientific establishment would have the vast majority of the public believe, they're no less fallible and given to hyperbole than the rest of us. They stake their entire careers on a theory and will spend that career defending it to the hilt, even if they're wrong for that precise reason.
Either way, it's nice to see scientists challenge the postulates of their heros, idols and most cherished theories. More, please.
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They probably peer reviewed it
This will come back as debunked I'm afraid... as exciting as it could be, neutrinos have mass and it is not possible for a particle with mass to travel at the speed of light, nevermind faster than it. If this was true then it would be possible to send a message back in time (I won't go into how). Information (mass) cannot travel at FTL speeds, special relativity will hold true here....
Sorry to kill the excitement!
Sorry to kill the excitement!
There is a standard definition of a second, so I assume they get both machines calibrated to measure that - and other measurements - the same. Then, *go team break physics*
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Einstein was wrong about many things, and many of his theories were disproved by other scientists even when he was alive and kicking in the classrooms.
It is really annoying that Steven Hawking came down with that illness, he would be the perfect person to start looking into this, and heck, given the freedom to freely speak with others he could have torn Einstein's E=MC2 apart a long time ago.
What's that!......a wormhole?
Aye captain, the worms have been at the dilithium crystals again.
I think this is how it's been going down for quite a long time
The interesting thing is that it if this is true is doesn't necessarily mean that Einstein was wrong. We have yet to properly unify relativity and quantum mechanics. Perhaps they can not be unified due to a yet undiscovered fundemental difference. The "FTL" neutrinos might represent an exception that exists that supports this "difference". Such exceptions could be inherent when dealing on the micro level of QM. Basically just about all matter/energy in our universe is bound by Einsteins speed limit, but exceptions are possible when dealing with certain extremes on the quantum level. Perhaps we just stumbled across one. The lack of a unified theory suggests that quantum level particles might not be entirely bound by the laws of physics as we understand it.
Hope this is true as it could represent a fundamental breakthrough and bring us another step closer to interstellar travel.
Hope this is true as it could represent a fundamental breakthrough and bring us another step closer to interstellar travel.
