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Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:13 pm
by Noodle

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:20 pm
by starlooker
:shock:

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:26 pm
by Noodle
my thoughts exactly.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:28 pm
by Wind Swept
Now to find a way to convert ourselves into neutrinos for transport.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:35 pm
by VelvetElvis
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.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:45 pm
by neo-dragon
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.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:06 pm
by Wind Swept
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.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:11 pm
by LilBee91
They should just increase the speed of light every time something breaks it.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:20 pm
by VelvetElvis
They should just increase the speed of light every time something breaks it.

Great idea!

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:55 pm
by megxers
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.

Priorities, people, haha.

Re: Faster than Light?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:36 pm
by neo-dragon
They should just increase the speed of light every time something breaks it.

I want to pat you on the head and give you a cookie. :)