CERN discovers FTL particle (possibly)

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"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."

 

If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.

 

That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-science-light-idUSTRE78L4FH20110922

Fuck CERN, lets go shopping

thank you for sharing

I won't believe it until someone else runs tests in a different facility entirely.

It's true. I'm making this post from The Future

how did they know there wasnt just 2 same particles along way apart

  On 9/23/2011 at 12:32 AM, sup said:

how did they know there wasnt just 2 same particles along way apart

yeah man, good point, there was some affair going couple of years ago, uhh with some photons passing a uhh filter you know, and the spin was passed from one to another in 'no time' I can't remember cos I went shopping, but it was quantum mechanics related. But seriously there are those two big theories,relativity and q.m. one for large scale the other for small scale world explanation, and if Einstein's is proved wrong, that world how we understand it, will just disappear, philosophically spoken. God, Dr. hat would contribute to that topic :(

If Einstein's theory about nothing being faster than light is disproved I'll be happy. That theory pisses me off.

/me preorders a neutrino modem

  On 9/23/2011 at 1:03 AM, Murveman said:

If Einstein's theory about nothing being faster than light is disproved I'll be happy. That theory pisses me off.

innit

2012

Quite. I refuse to believe I can't go warp 9.

Scientist1: "There seems to be a problem with the time machine!"

Scientist2: "That's funny it was working tomorrow"

  On 9/23/2011 at 2:25 AM, Braintree said:

Quite. I refuse to believe I can't go warp 9.

fuck warp 9, I'm going to plaid

izzziiiiiiiiiiiit

hate that speed of light prohibition too.

I remember reading a crazy theory about the universe being actually holographic but it was too cool so I discarded it as a sci-fi hoax, I think they explain how it is possible to be in two places at the same time like sup says, it's nice stuff for daydreaming..

on a few unfortunate occasions my bowels have moved faster than light

lol and still no new afx

  On 9/23/2011 at 1:03 AM, Murveman said:

If Einstein's theory about nothing being faster than light is disproved I'll be happy. That theory pisses me off.

lol me too.

Now they just need to figure out how to tie a tow rope to a neutrino and we're all good.

I just woke up from the initial shock so here is my real reaction text.

W H A T

I can't believe those crazy theorists that invented tachyons could be right. If they're existence will be confirmed, we are about to witness (or contribute) to another revolution in physics.

Haha, Einstein was such a moron

Maybe it was just disproving that gravity slows things down.

So if I start training now, I might be able to move faster than the speed of light in a couple of years. Awesome! ;p

/flash gordon