Why CERN and other mega-buck experiments should be done - no spam

[Consumer]

According to this article, and please google it for others, CERN, that huge particle accelerator in France/Switzerland, has done an experiment showing a particle moving faster than light.

They've done it twice. Now they are telling everyone else how to do it so they can confirm this.

Note: it's not the big accelerator that revealed this experiment, but the team of scientists there.

Now, here's your "warp drive" tech. Here's a re-thinking of physics. Here's something HUGE if it's real. This is why that often criticized "pure" research into fundamental questions is worth it.

I'm going to follow this with great interest.

Yeah, I'm a geek, but this might be the second most amazing thing to happen in my lifetime.

 

[Ilyanna]

"It's a shock," said Fermilab head theoretician Stephen Parke, who was not part of the research in Geneva. "It's going to cause us problems, no doubt about that - if it's true."

Hehe, problems such as calling a great part of our fundamental scientific laws into question?
This is really awesome.

Read more: CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured

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[starguard]

Its funny how so many things people believed were impossible in the past,were proven to indeed be possible only with a combination of ambition and time...

People once believed that the earth was the center of the heavens, and that everything else "including the sun" revolved around us...until science proved it wrong. The sun is indeed the center of our solar system and even our solar system itself revolves around a greater system which was later identified as the Milky way...

People once believed that the world was flat, and that it one were to sail too far from land, that they would fall off the edge, until a combination of science and travellers live Columbus proved the world to be indeed rather round..

People once believed that it was impossible to fly, (If God meant for man to fly, he'd have given us wings) until people like the Wright Brothers proved that flight was indeed possible...


People once believed that it was impossible to get to the moon. Rocket Scientist Dr. Werner Von Braun stated that in his youth people used to laugh at him when he annouced that it was his dream to go there. Even one of his instructors called him a "Mindless Daydreamer". That dream became reality when Neil Armstrong made the global statement "One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind" as he stepped from his lunar module and set the first human footprint on the surface of the moon....

There are so many things that we think today are impossible...

Time travel is impossible..

Teleportation is impossible...

Anti-gravitational devices are impossible...

These are things that we cannot see as possible by that standards of today, only because we haven't figured out how to achieve them yet, but just think how many of things things will actually become not only reality, but also a part of our daily lives in just a few generations from now.

One day we' will indeed encounter beings from other world..

One day we will indeed be able to travel to other planets just as easily as we travel to other cities...

One day we will indeed live a "Star Wars" type enviroment...


All it will take is a simple combination of ambition and time!

 

['Gear]

Starguard - Can I have a bowl of pasta too?

 

[jack]

They've duplicated the experiment about 30 times now...looks like Einstein was wrong.

 

[Consumer]

Or that it's not so simple. Some of the physicists are saying that Light Speed might not be a "speed limit". They are comparing it to the early understanding of the sound-barrier.

In the mid 40's, any aircraft that got close to the speed of sound ran into compression issues that ripped the wings off in most cases. Once they understood all of the things that go on with air and shock-waves at those speeds, they solved it within about 7 years you had production aircraft routinely breaking the sound barrier. Ironically, things clam down pretty quickly once you are through the sound barrier. It's that transition that's tricky.

Now the speculation is that the speed of light is "special", but not insurmountable, and if you can get through it (which the current math still says you get infinite mass at Light Speed and can't accelerate through as it' would take infinite energy to push), things might work in a way that you can continue to travel. There might be some way to "skip" the actual speed of light. No, I don't know how, the physicists involved are all paid to think of this stuff (and are a lot smarter than I am).

Still exciting stuff!