wow, they broke the speed of light at CERN
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8...-of-light.html

should I be bumping my "I debunked einstein while eating icecream" thread?

Fuck, do I have to re-take physics now?

Thanks for Sharing, Ron. Good stuff.

Why don't they want to think of the implications? This should be an extremely exciting discovery leading to many thoughts, theories, and speculations.

So, for the physics majors on GFY, a couple questions. Why does something that can travel faster than the speed of light mean that time travel may be possible? What will this do to the study of physics?

this is why:

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1450...light=12clicks

over a nanosecond? thought they might be jumping the gun a bit

Wow is that ever cool:

I wonder then if the Nutrino arrived BEFORE it left Geneva?

Hmmmm..

WOW that was quick!

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to travel through time, I bid you adieu...

Think Office Space.

Apply to physics.

Thanks Kedra! Thanks Atish!

http://www.livecamnetwork.com/bbs-pi...-atish-lhc.jpg

omg, how much suicides to expect now?!?

i'm a novice when it comes to the subject but i'll take a shot at it... (someone correct me if i'm way off please!)

We see things through light transfer, reflection etc with our eyes. The stars we see are so far away that we are looking at them from the past. If we can travel faster than light we can can surpass what we can see and essentially time travel.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't open the doors for things like going BACK in time.. I really don't think that is even possible.. but being able to view things before we can see them would be quite impressive.

That's amazing.

So if the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s

.....then exactly how fast is this new speed?

Cool stuff.. And one more example of how people putting faith in "science" as being written in stone are foolish.. Man knows shit about how things really work and every year some new study comes out that proves some "fact" wrong.

You have already done this, we all have.

Kickass! I'm still counting on commercial space travel happening within my lifetime.

first off there is no 'time'. time is the same a 'mile' in that is is not a natural occurrence only a device which men use to measure certain aspects of reality. going back in time using faster than light speeds would meant this in practice: seeing a Galaxy explode, because as you move closer you will be seeing the event earlier in time. it's not about meeting your mom in HS :2 cents:

explain? Even if you view something through a high powered telescope you are still looking at how it was long in the past.

You read my ice-cream thread

Did the particles arrive before they were shot?

Amazing.

If you stand one of your hottest girls naked in front of a telescope,, I bet I can get to her before I cum..

Ok I will try to get to her...

All right I will spooge in my pants before I can even get my eye to the telescope..

Anyway this discovery is going to get interesting..
Cant wait till the pope tells us that God had or has something to do with this.

Amazing this should make you a lot more money now. Faster cross sales ??

Do you think gold nuggets fly out of your ass as quick?

novice here as well but that's the way i understand it too. but it would be a way to "go back"

if a point in space is say, 20 light years away from you, and you could can send some apparatus to that point in 10 years, it'd start seeing the light from 10 years ago and up

.......i think

We figured all this crap out on another thread.

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1034...ght=light+mass

See, porn is way ahead of mainstream.

I think you should look at your theory again, but this time while you are enjoying Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls?

http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/feature/schweddy/

;-)

Human beings are quite impressive in some ways. We view things in our minds that don't exist, and we create them, sometimes on a massive scale (i.e. computers, fiber optics technology, the walls in your room). We view things before we can physically see them. We create from nothing something never before seen and only imagined.

We also cheat light constantly. My night vision site shows what can't be seen with the naked eye in the dark, so do xrays and ultrasounds. So many real world examples of this, including what CERN did today.

However if you're attempting to limit the discussion to being able to sense something visually, before you can sense it visually, then that's a straw mans discussion and I'm out on that one.

Does this mean we will have a faster fiber optic internet...

Either this turn physics on it's head, or they'll realize the receiving station 160 km away was really just 159.99999 km away.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...enged-14585328

funny rap to go with it

Amazing what people race home from the day job to post

Why does Will hate you so much? Shouldn't you be fucking over a surfer or something?

I don't understand, so Tawnee Stone works there

http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/03/to...socialist.html


Thanks to the socialists at CERN who made this happen. mark one up for socialism!

No, it does't mean that.

The neutrino had to travel about 700km. You can then calculate the time it should take to get there.

So with 299 792 458m/s over 700,000m..that's about 0.002334948 seconds if I'm not mistaken.

A nanosecond is 0.000000001 seconds.

According to the artical, what happens is is that it arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected.

So: 0.002334948 - 0.000000060 = 0.002334888 seconds over the 700km.

No, see above :)

299 800 247 m/s

Is that the number of people that visited 12clicks sites?

LOL shows how much you know Ronnie... I posted that while on break, now I am home from my job.

$1 says Bachman or Pat Robertson try to make the argument that 'If einstein can be wrong so can Darwin' as part of a renewed push for 'intelligent design.'

It could be a monumental discovery but people will assign it their own agenda even faster than a neutrino can move.

interesting story

299,792,459 m/s!

Is this like when my friend gets in a wreck and txt's/calls me about it? Phones = first time travel device!

were you one of the scientists consulted for the experiment?...did they invite you and serve you ice cream?

:1orglaugh

We will have to send them to "Happy Time Traffic School" to get their speeding ticket removed or they will see their insurance go up for sure.

I'm sure breaking the speed limit of light will be a major fine; especially, if it occurred in a school zone.

Now if they could just make my Internet connection a little bit fucking faster I would be happy.

the faster you travel towards the speed of light the slower time passes relative to a stationary object. it is a way of future time travel, not of going to the past.

amazing article. thanks.