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Re: Speed of light 'broken' at CERN
It was Albert Einstein, no less, who proposed more than 100 years ago that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light.
But last night it emerged that the man who laid the foundations for the laws of nature may have been wrong.
The science world was left in shock when workers at the world’s largest physics lab announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light
If the findings are proven to be accurate, they would overturn one of the pillars of the Standard Model of physics, which explains the way the universe and everything within it works.
Einstein’s theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.
The results have so astounded researchers that American and Japanese scientists have been asked to verify the results before they are confirmed as a discovery.
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers, said: “We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing.”
Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of physics.
John Ellis, a theoretical physicist, said Einstein’s theory underlies “pretty much everything in modern physics”.
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Re: Speed of light 'broken' at CERN
Very interesting!
Albert did believe in portals that could lead to other areas of the universe because he felt the universe was folded or something... Too complex for my small mind.
Re: Speed of light 'broken' at CERN
Yeah it has huge implications, and like MANY scientific discoveries of recent years, leads us closer to proving the universe is a hologram. Scientists working on the theory have been foaming at the mouth for this. They already proved Einstein's "gravity waves" were bullshit, and now this has happened.
The next few decades are going to be VERY interesting.
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