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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Typical “science”
“nothing in the universe can travel faster than light.”
(Until we find something that does).
No, they do not.
Even particles with zero rest mass, the photon for instance, are constrained under relativity, to velocities less than c. The rest mass of the neutrino may be very small, and zero is not excluded. To remain consistent with relativity, its rest mass would have to be imaginary when it is going faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
Even particles with zero rest mass, the photon for instance, are constrained under relativity to velocities less than c. The rest mass of the neutrino may be very small, and zero is not excluded. To remain consistent with relativity, its rest mass would have to be imaginary when it is going faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
Gadzooks! That's almost as fast... 
as I can empty a keg of beer!
How else do you think we got here... 
to abduct and probe so many of you?
If I went at that speed... 
it would melt my steel balls!
In... 
conceivable!
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!! Stop! Stop! Please stop! I can't think... 
that fast!
Calm down, big. Here, have some beer... 
and cotton candy. It'll calm your nerves.
You are a special relativity denier.
Or perception. Or the uncertainty principle.
That would be my first question. If the instruments you are using to measure the particle speed are limited by the speed of light then, to my thinking, you would have to have measure the result before the event happened in order to prove that something was moving faster than the speed of light.
Very small stopwatch.
Only if found to be false...... :-)
Not my specialty either, but if the neutrinos are going faster than light, the physicists really do need to start all over.
Newtonian physics work at a big scale. Quantum physics work at a small scale. Eisteinian physics may also be scale or state dependent in a way thay physicists haven’t thought about.
Theorized to have no rest mass.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/photon_mass.html
I got here as fast as I could, can, did, would;)
see!!!!!
Yessss
OK, that was kind of clever.
What is the rest mass of a photon?
And how was it measured?
Why is it zero? And how did you determine that?
Just wait until they figure out how fast Gravity waves travel...CC!
But if that bathroom door is closed at the moment you need it to be open time may be up!
A very small bathroom scale...
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