Speed barrier broken

Drench · Post Post #26 (isolation #0) » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:44 pm

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.

Drench · Post Post #28 (isolation #1) » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:56 pm

In post 27, mykonian wrote:
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.

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. Just a question I don't expect an answer on, but what makes that the tachyon doesn't carry information?

From what I gather (and I warn you, I'm pulling this all from Wikipedia without knowing anything about physics), they're not 'real' particles, but rather a representation of an instability. Or something.

As I said, I know nothing. So.

Drench · Post Post #33 (isolation #2) » Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:01 am

lewarcher82 wrote:
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.

Drench wrote:

From what I gather...they're not 'real' particles, but rather a representation of an instability. Or something.

i will not allow myself to look like i have failed even though i haven't, because fuck you that's why

Drench · Post Post #58 (isolation #3) » Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:50 pm

I don't understand that question's strength: wouldn't neutrinos being shot out of a supernova into space and neutrinos being shot from something that is decidedly

not

a supernova have the potential to result in different outcomes?