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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.
This will be changing a lot of science classes if true.
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.
This will be changing a lot of science classes if true.
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Additional article on this.
My question is, for all you science people out there, is the theoretical explanation behind this:
Scientists at the Gran Sasso facility will unveil evidence on Friday that raises the troubling possibility of a way to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.
I don't understand why one particle moving slightly faster than light would suddenly open up time travel, and mess with cause and effect. I mean, it's not like it's moving backwards in time, it's still taking a measurable amount to go from here to there. therefore one thing is still happening before another. Wouldn't cause still come before effect, even if things go a tiny bit faster?
http://yhoo.it/qYB6gW
This i found interesting, not from a fashion viewpoint but from a linguistic one. Language to me is very much a community activity, not an academic one, so while this is true:
"It's now easier to understand complex calculus than some of the words commonly used by commentators..."
I don't think it's wrong to use them.
Also: "Ideally we would like to drop all these amalgamations, but our hands are tied due to the terms being used on search engines,"
lol it's Google's fault
"We are still aiming to strip away as much of this new language as possible and use plain English to describe everything we sell," Watson said.
^Far more sensible
My degree's are in biology and anatomy but I know some physics. Basically time=light. If you think about your age and calendar system it is all based on light. If you move toward or away from light (slightly speeding up light hitting you or moving away and slowing it down) you actually change time slightly. So moving toward light at a high speed can speed up time. Moving away from light rapidly will cause light to take longer to reach you thus slowing time down. Einstein thus devised in theoretical terms if you could move an object faster than light you could greatly alter time (go back in time for example). The math and theory is more complex than I can fully explain since this is not my scientific area of expertise. But this is that basics behind it all.
Physics is only a theory. It's acceptance is because it makes the most sense.
Must suck working in a field that's made up.
Can anyone else confirm the sciency bit? I thought the theory of relativity only had to do with how fast you were moving, not whether you were moving towards or away from light.
http://bit.ly/nfbc8p
When Einstein stated no object can travel faster than the speed of lighf, its was the 50's (i believe.. Can remember the article so much atm) and there wasnt enough technology to disprove it, so it became fact..
Just like when the earth was declared flat, the technology wasnt around to disprove it until much later.. But when that technology became available, a new fact was created.
To say physics is theory, is in fact close to the truth.. Because we dont know what advancements in technology will become available to contradict what is regarded as fact now. Thats the beauty of all science, the ability to disprove what is known...
lolcops hard at work
http://bit.ly/rhRR16
Biggest question: Will they check for fake money?
pay to park at McDonalds? wtf...
Yay the Ig Nobels! Although:
John Perry of Stanford University for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which holds procrastinators can be motivated to do important things as long as they are doing them as a way of avoiding something even more important .
We must find this man and his research and destroy both of them. The world must never know his theory, it may be the end of procrastination as we know it!
EDIT: OT :P
Really????? I would have never guessed!
This one however, is pure win:
- Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, winner of the Peace Prize for showing that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank .
Wasabi fire alarm, or something similarly smelly is actually not too bad of an idea imo. There should definitely be these kinds of alternatives for deaf people esp. If they're sleeping, a flashing light wouldn't do the trick.
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