Particles May Travel Faster Than Light

[scumtroll69]

quoted from Mayhem Makers forums. www.mm-rs.org/forums

http://www.livescience.com/16183-faster-speed-light-physics-breakthrough.html


The Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, located nearly a mile below the surface of the Gran Sasso mountain about 60 miles outside of Rome, detects tiny particles called neutrinos.
CREDIT: Paolo Lombardi INFN-MI


...which in effect would completely change the laws of physics.

"According to relativity, it takes an infinite amount of energy to make anything go faster than light," Plunkett told LiveScience. "If these things are going faster than light, then these rules would have to be rewritten."

[Mark]

Gibrish

[scumtroll69]

hugely radical change coming to physics if the results can be duplicated again

was reading up on this, error margin is really low and results seem accurate. pretty exciting as this could very well be biggest breakthrough in human history regarding the understanding of the universe. would begin to explain alternate dimensions and sprout new theories about the universe and its vastness etc

Yep

Backbone of physics

This cosmic speed limit, 299,792,458 meters per second (about 700 million miles an hour), forms the backbone of Einstein's seminal Theory of Special Relativity, published in 1905. To rewrite this law would have broad-ranging implications, including even the possibility of time travel.

Obvious a little hype and exaggeration on possibilities, but still is there.

http://www.livescience.com/1339-travel-time

[Colinwarrior]

I'm not that surprised honestly. If you read up on the general theory of relativity and black holes, you'll notice that light is subject to many other forces in the universe. It can be bent and stretched and curved and pulled. Light is not perfect. So it comes as no surprise to me at least that we've developed a way to project particles faster than the speed of light.

[Mojo]

it may have detected neutrinos from another source (e.g. the sun). if not physics is screwed.

[Shinhwa]

Reddit much?

[Vephy]

Shit just got real.