Speed barrier broken

lewarcher82 · Post Post #15 (isolation #0) » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:06 am

yeah, the goal of science is to prove itself wrong, but I didn't expect to be still alive when special relativity risked to be falsified. Also: the technological environment of this experiments seems really impressive.

lewarcher82 · Post Post #19 (isolation #1) » Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:54 am

mmh... this is not gonna be settled soon, I am afraid.

lewarcher82 · Post Post #32 (isolation #2) » Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:00 am

In post 26, Drench wrote:
In post 25, mykonian wrote:
In post 24, Otolia wrote:1. The statement of restrained relativity "Nothing travels faster than light" is false. The true statement is "No information travels faster than light".

You are aware that the second statement includes the first, right?

No, it doesn't. The hypothetical tachyon can travel FTL, from what I understand.

huh, drench, I think you are not getting it completely right. tachyons are not particles, but something closer to a challenge to the model. Indeed, the CERN result can now be spelled as follows: there might be tachyonic neutrinos.

that said, I am no physicist and I gave up my math studies 5 years ago, so please correct me if I am mistaken.

lewarcher82 · Post Post #35 (isolation #3) » Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:34 am

Ok, thank you!

lewarcher82 · Post Post #57 (isolation #4) » Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:42 pm

so Prof. Carlo Rubbia kinda asked a question that freezed the CERN guys: how is it possible that in 1987 the neutrinos from the supernova in the Lareg Magellanic Cloud hit the Earth at the same time as we saw the star, (so more or less at the speed of light) and not 3 years before?