Posted on 09/22/2011 12:16:56 PM PDT by John W
An international team of scientists has recorded neutrino particles traveling faster than the speed of light, a spokesman for the researchers said on Thursday -- in what could be a challenge to one of the fundamental rules of physics.
If confirmed, the discovery would overturn a key part of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that nothing in the universe can travel faster than light.
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If this pans out, does this mean the “luminiferous ether” is back as a possibility?
hahahaha!Oh my, that was good!
Wouldn’t their mass depend on the size of the church?
But what about light itself?
Light has mass, not much but enough to be affected by gravity.
By the way, the solution to the solar neutrino problem is the greatest scientific advance of the 21st century so far.
What type of meter/gauge does one use for this purpose?
So much of that book was about the light speed limit. Everything in physics is about the light speed limit in some way.
Just about everything is out the window if the speed limit of light is more of a recommendation than a rule.
Neutrinos have a very small but non zero mass.
If they can go faster than light, they physicists have to start all over.
ummmm... then why is light bent and “pulled into” black holes?
If a train leaves Chicago, heading for New York traveling at 186,000 mi/sec, and another train leaves New York at the same time heading to Chicago traveling at 192,000 mi/sec, then.......oh never mind!
Those were YOUR 550 million dollars speeding into the black hole of Solyndra.
That was my first thought. See if they can duplicate it multiple times.
That was my first thought. See if they can duplicate it multiple times.
Time Travel is a reality - YOUR tax dollar is spent before it actually exists.
FUBO GTFO! 485 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013
You mean someone has found a way to use solar neutrinos to keep beer colder for longer periods of time ?
You’re talking about neutrainos, not neutrinos.
Photons have mass.
They repeated the measurement 15,000 times. The results are statistically significant. They cannot find an instrument error but state they cannot rule out systematic error and would be very happy if another lab repeated the experiment.
In all seriousness, curvature of the space-time continuum.
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