Faster Than Light

**Siphorous** · 09-22-2011, 03:11 PM

...by a few billionths of a second.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484

Originally Posted by Article

Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.

**retro** · 09-22-2011, 04:52 PM

If true, this could be monumental.

**Siphorous** · 09-22-2011, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by retro

If true, this could be monumental.

Indeed. I understand their cautious approach to their findings. I'll be keeping an eye on this one to see what their peers have to say - and indeed if anyone does repeat their experiments assuming this can't be explained and finds the same sort of results.

**BleedingBull** · 09-24-2011, 02:17 AM

Very Interesting, but imo it wouldnt surprise or bother me to find out that what man thought they knew was wrong, we are afterall just specks in this vast universe and dont and wont ever know everything.

**Siphorous** · 09-24-2011, 04:30 AM

A report regarding the seminar the scientists held regarding this and how they performed the experiment.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...eedfolo24.html

If you're really into this, full webcast is here:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1384486/

**Tuffdisc** · 09-26-2011, 08:44 AM

Logically speaking, if light could go so fast, then something has to go faster than the speed of light

**BadBoy** · 09-26-2011, 10:09 AM

Time travel anyone?

**Tuffdisc** · 09-26-2011, 05:50 PM

Not possible

**darkcgi** · 09-26-2011, 05:53 PM

if nothing is faster than light
then how do stars twinkle

**darkcgi** · 09-26-2011, 05:54 PM

i know the answer just being silly
absense of light

that article is awesome

**Siphorous** · 09-26-2011, 06:40 PM

Good article in laymans terms of what's happened so far.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/09...he-cern-study/

**BadBoy** · 09-27-2011, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Tuffdisc

Not possible

Anything faster than light was thought to be "not possible".

**cam elle toe** · 09-27-2011, 06:22 PM

I read that yesterday. Cant wait to hear more.

**Codrus** · 09-27-2011, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by darkcgi

if nothing is faster than light
then how do stars twinkle

heres an interesting thought

or did you mean a pulsating star?

**Siphorous** · 09-28-2011, 03:52 AM

A terrible time travel joke that made me smile though it was so bad (from the Wired article comments):

The bartender says "We don't serve faster-than-light particles in here". A neutrino goes into a bar.