FTL particle experiment confirms results

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http://www.manilanews.net/story/2011340 ... -discovery

Critics of the first experiment at the research facility at Cern in the Swiss Alps said that the long bunches of neutrinos used could introduce an error into the test, so the experiment was repeated with shorter bunches.

The findings were the same as the first experiment, with neutrinos sent through 730 kilometres of rock to a giant detector at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy arriving 60 billionths of a second faster than light would over the same distance.

Crazy stuff.

[Don Carlos]

Yeah I read this...interesting for the world of physics

[Transient]

I wonder how long before it means anything to us plebs.

[bitWISE]

Would be cool if they were actually creating those particles 60 billionths of a second in the past.

[plained]

bring back that stargate universe!

[scared?]

we are too stoopid to figure it all out...and we will all die before we understand...

[seremtan]

ur stoopid...

[andyman]

I wonder how long before it means anything to us plebs.

should give us better tv's

[mjrpes]

I wonder how long before it means anything to us plebs.

Means we'll have lower ping n00b

[DTS]

I wonder how long before it means anything to us plebs.

Means we'll have lower ping n00b

- and we'll be able to play through rock without cables?

[duffman91]

So a sub-atomic particle of infinitely small mass was measured as faster than light speed through a non-vacuum. How is this news?

How about we pass an atom through a vacuum at a faster than light speed and report on that first.

Oh right, we're all idiots that don't really understand what Einstein said.

[Eraser]

But thank god we still have you, someone who does understand everything to the letter!

[duffman91]

But thank god we still have you, someone who does understand everything to the letter!

I'm not a sensationalist and didn't flunk physics like the idiots in the media. The followup article that nobody talks about:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15830844

The lack of a unifying theory in physics opens up doors to many possibilities. However, reporting on unverified results is retarded. If you put the same amount of effort from your shit comment into some research, you'd find that quantum theory touches on faster than light speeds and how it applies to different sub-atomic particles.

[bitWISE]

The point I got from it is that the goal is to simply understand what is causing that result. Hyping it up as a disproving Einstein's theories is retarded, but it is still a very interesting puzzle to crack. My under-educated guess is that the speed of light isn't being surpassed, but there is some other quantum mechanical explanation. Or maybe it is being surpassed and it's just another incompatibility between quantum mechanics and relativity.

[Tsakali]

k so the verdict is in:

Faster-than-light neutrino result reportedly a mistake caused by loose cable

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/201 ... ars?dskfaj

the scientific method triumphs once again

[seremtan]

well, technically, the verdict isn't in because they haven't yet tested the hypothesis; however a loose cable is a more plausible explanation than one that means re-writing the laws of physics

[Tsakali]

right, looks like they are also going through with the previous tests they had lined up.

[xer0s]

A loose cable?

[seremtan]

this is a particle accelerator we're talking about here, not your daddy's pickup truck. it's a complicated piece of machinery

[plained]

thats neat ey

it reminds me that i miss stargate universe

[GONNAFISTYA]

this is a particle accelerator we're talking about here, not your daddy's pickup truck. it's a complicated piece of machinery

nu-uh it's a popcorn maker

[Tsakali]

a popcorn maker with 5,000,000,000,000 flavors to choose from.

[scared?]

well, technically, the verdict isn't in because they haven't yet tested the hypothesis; however a loose cable is a more plausible explanation than one that means re-writing the laws of physics

yes it's a cover up...the truth would blow our minds!...

[Eraser]

That's the difference between science and religion: scientists admit it when they're wrong.

[Don Carlos]

Yeah I read this...interesting for the world of physics

there's a killer meme waiting to happen in there somewhere

Make it happen