Einstein Avenged: Neutrinos Bow to Light Speed Laws ("E=MC2, Dammit!")

TechNewsWorld ^ | 06/08/12 | Richard Adhikari

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

They ain’t no Einstein.

[Lancey Howard]

Did Einstein ever explain why, of all the various particles flying around the universe, photons are the fastest?

[doc1019]

Did he ever consider that the speed of light was not an historical constant?

[presidio9]

A photon at rest has no mass. They exist in waves as carriers of light energy.

[MHGinTN]

Is MC2 related to MC Hammer? ( I know, it's E=MC². Tryin' to make a science joke here.)

[this_ol_patriot]

Did Einstein ever explain why, of all the various particles flying around the universe, photons are the fastest?

They are like lapsed Catholics, massless.

[Puckster]

Dammit Jim.....it is the stuff of fiction!

[MHGinTN]

They’e not just fast. The lose no time at all. No matter how far they travel they arrive in the present of when they left.

[DesertRhino]

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. (the observable universe is 46 billion light years wide, started at a single point, and is 13.7 billion years old,,,hmmmm)

[presidio9]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks presidio9.

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[MHGinTN]

That picture was so big I had to shrink my resolution to 75% to see it all! Give an old man a break will ya?

[The Cajun]

From the photon's point of view, it is created and destroyed in the same instant, basically it doesn't exists from its’ perspective (zero time has passed for it) :^)

[Lady Lucky]

They ain’t no Einstein.

They ain't even Roget. "Einstein Vindicated" would have been better.

[Billthedrill]

e=mc² - it isn't just good advice, it's the law.

[MHGinTN]

Hmmm, sounds a lot like virtual particles, from our perspective. I wonder, could it be that dimension Time has different variable expressions we don’t realize yet, from our special place of observation, situated as we are in the present but sensing only past events? we extrapolate real good though ...

[Ronin]

Cut to the chase. Does this mean humans will never get star travel?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Does going to the sun count?

[samtheman]

Nothing can travel through space faster than light. But the expansion of the universe isn’t an expansion in space, it’s an expansion of space. Space can expand faster than the speed of light. This does not violate the lightspeed limit within space.

In other words, nothing in the universe can travel FTL but the universe itself is expanding FTL.