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Faster than Light?

Postby Noodle » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:13 pm

It's real?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/ ... FH20110922
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby starlooker » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:20 pm

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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby Noodle » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:26 pm

my thoughts exactly.
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby Wind Swept » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:28 pm

Now to find a way to convert ourselves into neutrinos for transport.
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby VelvetElvis » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:35 pm

If they only did it once (which is how I'm reading the article) then I am taking this with an entire shaker of salt.
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby neo-dragon » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:45 pm

That's really something if it is as it appears. Just the theoretical implications of something being able to travel faster than light are crazy. I mean, I'm no physicist, but it seems to me like everything we know about time and space is based on the light speed limit.
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby Wind Swept » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:06 pm

If they only did it once (which is how I'm reading the article) then I am taking this with an entire shaker of salt.
A total of 15,000 beams of neutrinos -- tiny particles that pervade the cosmos -- were fired over a period of 3 years from CERN toward Gran Sasso 730 (500 miles) km away, where they were picked up by giant detectors.
I'm under the impression it happened more than once in that time.
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby LilBee91 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:11 pm

They should just increase the speed of light every time something breaks it.
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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby VelvetElvis » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:20 pm

They should just increase the speed of light every time something breaks it.

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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby megxers » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:55 pm

I like how one of my friends dad works at CERN and no one has asked him about this at all, when my friend who works at Facebook has like, personal attacks on his wall.

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Re: Faster than Light?

Postby neo-dragon » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:36 pm

They should just increase the speed of light every time something breaks it.

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