*Breaking NEWS* Physicists discover we CAN travel faster than Light

[hedonis]

Psh.... since 77 we've known that the Millennium Falcon can make .5 PAST light speed. This is nothing.

 

[PirateKing]

I called it.

 

[Bonezstorm]

Faster than light? Then they haven't measured my cum

 

[zdenka]

This means we can travel back in time.

 

[Facetious]

Re: *Breaking NEWS* Physicists discover we CAN travel faster than Light


In either direction? CL! ... get me back to circa 1990, there's so much I should have savored. :angels:

 

[Ravenholm]

Fucking old news!.

Santa has been doing that shit for centuries.

 

[zdenka]

In either direction? CL! ... get me back to circa 1990, there's so much I should have savored. :angels:

Why 1990 when you can travel back to the Dinosaurs, and rule the world alone? hmm.. I wonder if the air was breathable back then :1orglaugh

 

[Red Spyder]

Well, the speed of light is 1,080 million KM/Hr, Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the earth other than the sun is about 39,900,000,000,000 Km away.... aah, how long would it take to get there? Let's say a ship is built that can go at about twice the speed of light, for purposes of simplicity, let's say 200 million Km/Hr..... damn it, I can just imagine the kids "are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?"

 

[Legzman]

Ok so something with the mass of an atom can travel faster than the speed of light. But humans with our great mass??? No chance in hell! Who's gonna be the first test subject for that? They'll be pulverized.

 

[STDiva]

Ok so something with the mass of an atom can travel faster than the speed of light. But humans with our great mass??? No chance in hell! Who's gonna be the first test subject for that? They'll be pulverized.

I'll take one for the team.

 

[zdenka]

You can if you accelerate slowly, and don't hit an asteroid on the way. Also remember to slow down before you stop the spaceship

But humans with our great mass??? No chance in hell! Who's gonna be the first test subject for that? They'll be pulverized.

 

[Rey C.]

Re: *Breaking NEWS* Physicists discover we CAN travel faster than Light


In either direction? CL! ... get me back to circa 1990, there's so much I should have savored. :angels:

Drop me off in early 1987. I'll be heavy short on Black Friday and I'll meet you at my villa in Saint Tropez when you get to 1990. Just ask for the guy who had the scandalous, drunken orgy with Princess Stephanie, Katarina Witt and Elle Macpherson - the local police will direct you to my house. There'll be a Ferrari F40 in the driveway and there'll be a parking spot designated for a Jag XJ220 (since it won't be out for a couple more years). Hey, it's not insider trading if you trade based on what you learned in the future, right???

And the possibility that the theory of relativity was wrong (at least in part) is pretty amazing! Hopefully the team in the U.S. (or where ever) can replicate the study and validate the results.

 

[zdenka]

So will you come Back to the Future??

Drop me off in early 1987. .

 

[~~whimsy~~]

StanScratch broke the speed of light the first all the way through last time he has had sex.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

StanScratch broke the speed of light the first all the way through last time he has had sex.

:surprise:Whimsy!? Haven't seen you around in a while. Finally escaped from Dirk's basement eh? Bravo to you sir!:clap:

 

[Rey C.]

Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result

The team which found that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and confirmed the result.

If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics.

Critics of the first report in September had said that the long bunches of neutrinos (tiny particles) used could introduce an error into the test.

The new work used much shorter bunches.

It has been posted to the Arxiv repository and submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics, but has not yet been reviewed by the scientific community.

The experiments have been carried out by the Opera collaboration - short for Oscillation Project with Emulsion (T)racking Apparatus.

It hinges on sending bunches of neutrinos created at the Cern facility (actually produced as decays within a long bunch of protons produced at Cern) through 730km (454 miles) of rock to a giant detector at the INFN-Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy.

The initial series of experiments, comprising 15,000 separate measurements spread out over three years, found that the neutrinos arrived 60 billionths of a second faster than light would have, travelling unimpeded over the same distance.

The idea that nothing can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum forms a cornerstone in physics - first laid out by James Clerk Maxwell and later incorporated into Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Congratulations on posting a genuinely interesting and intelligent thread!

 

[StanScratch]

StanScratch broke the speed of light the first all the way through last time he has had sex.

Dang it, I did not see this the first time around, making my "You should know, you were the catcher" comment way out of line.

 

[ralph furley]

sounds like cold fusion

 

[Ovidius]

Why 1990 when you can travel back to the Dinosaurs, and rule the world alone? hmm.. I wonder if the air was breathable back then :1orglaugh

Why not? I want a genuine T-Rex belt.