mnottertail
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic Last week, CERN made the startling announcement that they had recorded particles moving faster than the speed of light. I saw one article by a String theorist, suggesting the neutrinos never exceeded light speed, but simply took a shortcut by leaving the universe, but all the other reports I've seen say it's a matter of finding the glitch in the experiment. Gotta be, right? Nothing goes faster than light. That is something we know for sure about how the universe works. Just a question though, before we dismiss the whole thing. Even if it is just to be intrigued by the String possibilities, how much faith do you have that what we now know about how the universe works, is any sort of final answer? Edit to add a slideshow link. http://www.livescience.com/16214-implications-faster-light-neutrinos.html I think that Einstein took us a long way towards the edge of the envelope but certainly did not leave it. At those close tolerances and edge equations and strange and unfathomable behaviors for that which we cannot really see and measure....I don't know. Its like that post I made in response to popeye about why it had to be such and such and so and so at the EDGE of the universe and the thing you posted about the constant acceleration discrepency, there is stuff out there that will ever remain beyond our ken, I should think. While I have read some stuff about it, I don't see how neutrinos moving faster than celerity is other than a curiosity, since as you know I am all about real=exploitable. On the other hand, there was some vague reference in there about how the fact that a nuetrino (and what? we have to consider that other material objects might travel beyond celerity? shit!!!!!) traveling beyond sol would be useful....but it ain't like you can go to the corner grocery and pick up a bag of em......it isnt going to be a ubitquious thing, whatever it is, it would remain esoteric for many generations......imnsho. I dunno, I dunno, I hope it is a mistake and sol is a fixed fact, (just a personal aesthetic) but really, we know nothing, and never will, hah?
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