Posted on 11/18/2011 11:53:59 AM PST by TN4Liberty
Well said!
At East Anglia University, it was deliberate fraud, not just error, or insufficiency.
A misunderstanding of physical laws is not a criminal act.
Laws of Physics are made to be broken.
Thank you for reminding me of Rep. Muskrat’s name. Yeah, he was crooked. But no more so than 90% of the Democrats in office. And waaay more entertaining.
[ Ive never believed in the light-speed limit. Ever. ]
What if.. a photon was resting not moving at all..
Would that be called a photograph?.. or just a photo?..
http://www.physics.umn.edu/outreach/soudan/tour/
If any of you ever get up to Ely, MN be sure to take the tour of the Soudan Mine. Going down in one of the ore cars stuffed in there with everyone else is a ride in itself. But not for the claustrophobic. I do wish we had arrived an hr earlier so we could have toured the lab, but we were to late. Oh well.
....definitely can't be tracked by a flashlight.
Shouldn't that be "OPETA"?
Simple time versus distance.
So, does E still = mC^2, or does E=m*speed of neutrinos^2?
Wonder what time and distance has to say about all of this?
What if, all this time, we have been moving at the speed of light and light itself has just been sitting there stationary?
Heavy, man.
But then, according to Zeno’s paradox, nothing can actually move anyway.
But the measuring instruments only run as fast as light (electrons) so how could it measure something faster?
So when I turn on a flashlight, we all get propelled backward at 186K mps?
Cool!
I happen to suspect that there is something of an ether, something within space-time that determines this speed, perhaps due to the granularity of the universe and Planck's constant.
However, the article in Nature , goes on to say
OPERA expects the new result to rule out uncertainties due to the long timescale of the proton pulses. But concerns about the experiments use of the Global Positioning System to synchronize clocks at each end of the neutrino beam are unlikely to be as easily allayed, The use of GPS is novel in the field of high energy and particle physics and the same system was used for both the original experiment and the new run. Hagner also adds that shed like to see the time measurement checked using another part of the detector, to increase confidence further.
So, apparently the Special Relativistic error in GPS may not have been accounted for. My question is simple ... why not just shoot a normal, everyday beam of light from a laser, measure that and get a baseline. If you have consistent error in your measurements, then you have something to work with. Then, try the 'magic' pulse and see if the result is the same. I like things to be simple and nearly foolproof. But, I'm just an engineer; not a physisist.
The fact that the calculated error on the pulse is 32ns, and the "faster than the speed of light" measurement is 64ns (2x the calculated error) is too close to the actual difference to be pure random chance.
It isn’t a race between the two. We can measure light by bouncing it off the moon or between two distant points.
If a soul has mass then it is bound by the speed of light. If not, then it isn’t.
I should have used “calculate” instead of “run” as in a race as you thought.
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