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Results from Cern show particles 'exceeded speed of light'

#1 User is offline   chconline 

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 09:43 PM

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New results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have confounded physicists - because it seems subatomic particles have beaten the speed of light.

The neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km (454 miles) away in Italy seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.

The speed of light is the universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his theory of special relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.


http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-15038826

Heard this on the news on Friday, but haven't had time to post about it. This is really intense. :|
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Posted 26 September 2011 - 09:54 PM

They're still waiting for Verification with separate Physicists in testing. I'll be interested to see how this turns out.
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Posted 28 September 2011 - 12:41 PM

TECHNICALLY special relativity does not exclude faster than the speed of light.
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Posted 28 September 2011 - 12:50 PM

No, but it opens up a whole new field of research. :D
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Posted 28 September 2011 - 06:41 PM

Time travel! Can't wait for it! :lol:
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Posted 28 September 2011 - 08:02 PM

I doubt being able to 'prove' the ability to have particles travel faster than light has any direct relevance to time travel.
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Posted 29 September 2011 - 02:50 PM

View PostJarolToe, on 28 September 2011 - 06:41 PM, said:

Time travel! Can't wait for it! :lol:

:P I already solved tons of formulas that allows negative time travel in high school. It just turned out I made a mistake in the middle.
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 04:30 PM

Depends what is the tolerance of this experiment as well, but I'd like to see how it turns out :D
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