Don't make any long range plans

[Napoleon]

Second experiment confirms faster than light particles (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html)

[datachicane]

Second experiment confirms faster than light particles (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html)


:eek::eek:

[TrueBrit]

Second experiment confirms faster than light particles (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html)

So what's the rub here, Albert Einstein was full of sh it?

[TrueBrit]

Sure, everything is relative, but for a 47yr old theoretical physicist she clears the bar with ease... :D [stereotype/]

I had to come all the way back from the future just to say how :rofl::D:laugh: that statement still is...oh, and no, things aren't any better than they were back in '09....

[SteveH]

Second experiment confirms faster than light particles (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html)

Yeah sure, what's next, the IRL running a street race in China?

Oh wait.......

[cameraman]

Does this mean that I will have to go back and retake that ever so lovely year of physics:eek: There's no way in hell I'd pass with my current math skilz.

[Napoleon]

So what's the rub here, Albert Einstein was full of sh it?


I have a hard time believing it is not a measurement error. Its not like they built the collider and when they ran the experiment they blew past the speed of light. The number they are getting is just barely past the speed of light. If Einstein is so wrong why is that number so close?

[cameraman]

If Einstein is so wrong why is that number so close? Mebbe he wasn't that wrong...

[BarillaGirl]

Does this mean that I will have to go back and retake that ever so lovely year of physics:eek: There's no way in hell I'd pass with my current math skilz.

I just started school again to get a physics degree. Next term is Astronomy and Precalculus, but I'll take careful notes in the fall when I start taking Actual Physics Classes. I'm out to discover the graviton. ;)

[Napoleon]

Mebbe he wasn't that wrong...

Good comment since it forces me to explain something I left unsaid, which is by its very nature wouldn't any mistake in an incredibly complex formula or mathematical system or whatever you would call the Theory of Relativity be by definition a big mistake. It is one thing for me in woodworking class to make a piece 1/32 too big and make it fit, but another where being slightly off may mean Neutrons would have to be the size of basketballs in order to make the formula work. Intuitively it seems to me that is what we are talking about, a a small change would have huge implications.

When Einstein proposed the theory scientist had no idea of whether most of the predictions of it made where right, and over time more and more of the predictions have been proven. And now on this one item the results come back off, but just barely. It would be one thing if it was 50% off, but just barely?

[Indy]

I am smelling job security for a whole bunch of physicists.

Hey, nobody said they were stupid. :gomer:

[Insomniac]

Couple articles on the most recent discoveries:

http://www.economist.com/node/21541797
http://www.economist.com/node/21541825

[Napoleon]

Second experiment confirms faster than light particles (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html)


Now it looks like it was nothing but a bad connection that caused it. (http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/breaking-news-error-undoes-faster.html?ref=hp#.T0U_N0pYVRc.twitter)

[Don Quixote]

A loose wire. :rofl:

[Gnam]

That's why tech support always asks if everything is plugged in... :D

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[EDwardo]

http://itsthecrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/03x09-07-04.jpg

[cameraman]

Now you can build your own....

http://atlas-model.mehlhase.info/media/title.jpg

Only 9517 pieces....

http://atlas-model.mehlhase.info/#name_construction

[Rex Karz]

If the earth were swallowed up and destroyed by a black hole, wouldn't that mean the end of the Indy 500?

Oh, nooooooooo!!!! A tragedy!!!!! Oh, the humanity!!!!! :gomer: :tony: