CERN breaks light speed barrier?

[ProjectVRD]

If this was posted earlier it is not my fault, I posted first but it just arrived a little later so don't give me any **** about it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8782895/CERN-scientists-break-the-speed-of-light.html

 

[Dennisch]

That is awesome. If it's true, the smartheads need to rethink everything.
Famine, where are you.

Btw, this should go in to the Opinions and Current events forum.

 

[Moglet]

This is why I love science. It sets out to disprove itself.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Warp propulsion here we come \o/.

Maybe

I'm not sure it 'per-se' disproves Einstein's theory given that little is understood about neutrino's. They may in fact have no mass, thus should not conform to Special Relativity.

 

[G.T.Ace]

I thought they spotted a faster-than-light object in space a couple of months ago? Anyway, very cool stuff, if true.

 

[ProjectVRD]

Warp propulsion here we come \o/.

Maybe

Yay! We can get to our nearest star... 3 days earlier? Damn!

 

[Dennisch]

I thought they spotted a faster-than-light object in space a couple of months ago? Anyway, very cool stuff, if true.

The galaxies that are really, really far away, seem to be moving away from us faster then the speed of light.

Yay! We can get to our nearest star... 3 days earlier? Damn!

If the speed of light is no longer a barrier, who knows what kind of speeds we will discover. Maybe we can be there instantly.

SIGN ME UP!


[Nerd]This is the most exciting news I heard in a long time[/Nerd]

 

[G.T.Ace]

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12841-faster-than-light-pulsar-radio-waves-found/ I mean stuff like this for example.

 

[Terronium-12]

I'm salivating over here.

I need to brush up on my physics now.

 

[Dennisch]

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12841-faster-than-light-pulsar-radio-waves-found/ I mean stuff like this for example.

Is that already confirmed? I've read that before, but it wasn't confirmed back then.

I'm salivating over here.

I need to brush up on my physics now.

 

[Danoff]

The researchers responsible for this are scratching their heads and asking for time. I recommend we give it to them.

 

[ProjectVRD]

[Nerd]This is the most exciting news I heard in a long time[/Nerd]

Judging from my facebook (yes, I know ) it is not only the nerds who are getting excited about this. But watch now, the results will be invalidated because somebody in CERN left the bleeding microwave on.

 

[CodeRedR51]

The galaxies that are really, really far away, seem to be moving away from us faster then the speed of light.

We can worry about them later, for now getting to our neighboring Galaxies a lot faster is still exciting.

 

[G.T.Ace]

Is that already confirmed? I've read that before, but it wasn't confirmed back then.

The CERN stuff isn't confirmed so far either, I am just saying it's not the first report like this, so nothing to get too hyped about, yet.

 

[Dennisch]

We can worry about them later, for now getting to our neighboring Galaxies a lot faster is still exciting.

Forget neighbouring Galaxies, we've got 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.

[hope]Proxima Centauri, here we come.[/hope]

The CERN stuff isn't confirmed so far either, I am just saying it's not the first report like this, so nothing to get too hyped about, yet.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Mind blown.

So if the theory of time travel requiring light speed travel is true, then the atoms or neautrons or whatever it was, travelled back in time to get there quicker?

 

[TankAss95]

UNNNLLLIIMMEETTHEEEDDD SPEEEEDDD!!!!!
Sorry if I'm spamming people. Just had to do it.

 

[G.T.Ace]

You mean ludicrous speed?

 

[TankAss95]

You mean ridiculous speed?

Nah, I'm more referring to Star Wars. Like instead of UnLimITEd PoWER!!! I'm saying UnLIMITEd spEED!!!

Nobody else find it funny? Never mind.
My sense of humour =

 

[G.T.Ace]

I never had the chance to see Star Wars in English unfortunately, so sorry.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Forgive me for being stupid, but if this turns out to be 100% real, how would you adapt it to a craft for space travel?

 

[Dennisch]

Mind blown.

So if the theory of time travel requiring light speed travel is true, then the atoms or neautrons or whatever it was, travelled back in time to get there quicker?

I don't get it?

The neutrino's where faster than light, so they say. Simple.

Forgive me for being stupid, but if this turns out to be 100% real, how would you adapt it to a craft for space travel?

 

[rocko100]

Now for LUDICROUS SPEED!
it it possible to strap someone to a neutrino?
Joking aside, what happened, was there a boom a flash of light anything to let you know it was going light speed?

 

[TankAss95]

Forgive me for being stupid, but if this turns out to be 100% real, how would you adapt it to a craft for space travel?

... Shoot the spacecraft with a laser beam? Laser beam pushes the spacecraft to it's current speed?
Oh... wait, were not talking about troll physics here now are we? This is a very serious thread. Hmm idk?

 

[Dennisch]

... Shoot the spacecraft with a laser beam? Laser beam pushes the spacecraft to it's current speed?
Oh... wait, were not talking about troll physics here now are we? This is a very serious thread. Hmm idk?

Duh, Laser is light. We need to go faster than light.


I'll take a wild guess. Some day in the future, some bright mind will wake up, with the idea for a neutrino driven engine.

*Pushes button, hello Andromeda.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I'll take a wild guess. Some day in the future, some bright mind will wake up, with the idea for a neutrino driven engine.

*Pushes button, hello Andromeda.

Well that mind better wake up soon! I want to go to Andromeda too!

 

[TankAss95]

Duh, Laser is light. We need to go faster than light.


I'll take a wild guess. Some day in the future, some bright mind will wake up, with the idea for a neutrino driven engine.

*Pushes button, hello Andromeda.

To break the speed of light you must first use light?
I'm just trying to dig myself out of a hole here and yeah, I'm a dumbass

 

[Dennisch]

To break the speed of light you must first use light?
I'm just trying to dig myself out of a hole here and yeah, I'm a dumbass

No, according to the link in the OP, we need neutrino's.

 

[rocko100]

Just realized, Didn't Thomas Edison do this 120 years ago?

 

[cjmpe]

The CERN stuff isn't confirmed so far either, I am just saying it's not the first report like this, so nothing to get too hyped about, yet.

In related news, I also read today that CERN has been struggling with bugs in the software they are using to hunt for the Higgs Boson:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/22/cern_coverity/

I hope there isn't a similar problem here because it will be interesting (if probably a bit mind bending) to hear what kind of modifications to General Relativity will be proposed in order to explain this one.