Scientists have surpassed the speed of light!

Blazer · 22-09-2011 09:57PM

Warp drive here we come...in a couple of hundred years or so..:(

ejmaztec · 22-09-2011 09:58PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Are you kidding ? Haven't you been paying attention ?

Because of the LHC they already think they will have to chuck out Supersymmetry (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14680570) and because of this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14948730) they may have to chuck or rework dark matter.

Ha are you kidding me an all ? The supersymmetry story was enough to convince me. This is just icing on the cake. What I expected would happen was that the LHC would churn out relatively predictable results as most particle accelerators have done for a while. What I didn't expect and what I think is awesome is that its singlehandedly turning physics on its head. I mean there is a revolution going on in physics here that we are witnessing. Its the most exciting time in physics in about 100 years. Physics was a field in decline in comparison to biology and biochemistry - seems like all that is about to change. Its been blazingly obvious for a long time that the theory had got wildly ahead of the experiment and gone into the realm of fantasy and universes on the back of giant turtles. Finally some work is chucking out the lunacy.

So yeah I was wrong about the LHC. Long may it continue to fascinate!

Isn't that where they can squeeze more corpses in than the normal one?

dj jarvis · 22-09-2011 10:03PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Star trek will be reality one day at this rate

well in fairness we actually have lots from star trek,
sliding doors ( ok they dont go whhosh but nearly there )
communicators - mobile phone
replicator - 3d printers
medical bay scanners - mri
holo deck - LSD
phasers - stun guns
guy in red shirt who always get killed - american serviceman in iraq
warp drive - 1.0 1994 nissan micra with black bonnet , cherry bomb exhaust with micko at the helm making it so

KeithAFC · 22-09-2011 10:04PM

I doubt it but hopefully it is true.

opinion guy · 22-09-2011 10:06PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Isn't that where they can squeeze more corpses in than the normal one?

You're thinking of a Skoda Octavia

Ronin247 · 22-09-2011 10:26PM

Four guys, one each from Harvard, Yale, MIT University and Paddy Murphy from Tallaght were to be interviewed for a job at the Large Hadron Collider.

One common question was asked to all of them.

INTERVIEWER: WHICH IS THE FASTEST THING IN THE WORLD?

YALE Guy: It is Light, nothing can travel faster than Light.

HARVARD Guy: It's the Thought; because thought is so fast it comes instantly in your mind.

MIT Guy: Its Blink, you can blink and it's hard to realize you blinked

Paddy Murphy. Diarrhea

INTERVIEWER: (Shocked to hear Paddys reply) "WHY"?

Paddy Murphy: Last night after dinner, I was lying in my bed and I got the worst stomach cramps, and before I could THINK, BLINK, or TURN ON THE LIGHTS, I'd sh*t meself !!

Paddy didn't get the job.

Iwannahurl · 22-09-2011 10:39PM

joshrogan wrote: »

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BREAKING_LIGHT_SPEED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Time travel here we come :cool:

I can't wait.

Will we be able to travel 60 nanoseconds into the future or the past, or both?

Seachmall · 22-09-2011 10:55PM

I'm very, very sceptical of this.

There has to be a problem with the findings. Has to be. HAS TO BE!!!!

But dear Lord I hope it's true.

@Iwannahurl,
Backwards in Time.

opinion guy · 22-09-2011 10:59PM

Seachmall wrote: »

I'm very, very sceptical of this.

There has to be a problem with the findings. Has to be. HAS TO BE!!!!

But dear Lord I hope it's true.

@Iwannahurl,
Backwards in Time.

Amazing how so many people WANT this to be true.

Cú Giobach · 22-09-2011 11:05PM

orourkeda wrote: »

That einstein isnt so clever now is he?

"If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants" : Isaac Newton

Temptamperu · 22-09-2011 11:10PM

Pfft relativity is just a theory :rolleyes:

:pac:

woodoo · 22-09-2011 11:11PM

In the immortal words of 2 Unlimited:- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no , no, no There's no limit!

I believe that the speed of light can be outdone.

Augmerson · 22-09-2011 11:26PM

I swear to god this will all end with a Gordon Freeman type pushing a trolley of UNKOWN MATERIAL into a particle accelerator and trigging an inter-dimensional rift with a parallel universe of horrific monstrosities.

Seachmall · 22-09-2011 11:26PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Amazing how so many people WANT this to be true.

If it is true it's one of the greatest discoveries in recent times.

It'd be as revolutionary for physics as evolution was to biology. A completely new understanding of how modern physics works would be required.

But it's probably not true, I'm giving it a .01% chance of being true.

All of the above is based on my expert understanding of the topics at hand :pac:

Buceph · 22-09-2011 11:29PM

Can't be true. The Vulcans haven't arrived to welcome us to the intergalactic community yet.

Cú Giobach · 22-09-2011 11:31PM

Seachmall wrote: »

If it is true it's one of the greatest discoveries in recent times.

It'd be as revolutionary for physics as evolution was to biology. A completely new understanding of how modern physics works would be required.

But it's probably not true, I'm giving it a .01% chance of being true.

All of the above is based on my expert understanding of the topics at hand :pac:

It's too good to be true

Though it could be the best thing to have come out of Italy since pizza.

CoolHat · 22-09-2011 11:37PM

Buceph wrote: »

Can't be true. The Vulcans haven't arrived to welcome us to the intergalactic community yet.

exactly. and i just looked outside. I didnt see a sphere shaped object shooting stuff at earth.

(i need a life

)

Iwannahurl · 22-09-2011 11:37PM

I'm remaining neutral on this one.

CorkMan · 22-09-2011 11:39PM

I knew my LSD experience was right all these years!!

FunkZ · 22-09-2011 11:40PM

Bonnie Tylar predicted this in the 80's...

Iwannahurl · 22-09-2011 11:45PM

FunkZ wrote: »

Bonnie Tylar predicted this in the 80's...

Maybe she'll get a belated Nobel prize...

Cú Giobach · 22-09-2011 11:50PM

FunkZ wrote: »

Bonnie Tylar predicted this in the 80's...

Thanks (I think), I'm now trawling the web trying to find information on what could be the greatest scientific breakthroughs in my lifetime, to the strains of Bonnie Tyler singing "Lost in France". :pac:

ringadingding · 22-09-2011 11:53PM

They just need to have a race to finally settle it , my money's on light....

Paparazzo · 23-09-2011 12:01AM

I'll be impressed when the LHC can explain magnets

Seachmall · 23-09-2011 12:02AM

Paparazzo wrote: »

I'll be impressed when the LHC can explain magnets

They're scientists, not fucking wizards.

Iwannahurl · 23-09-2011 12:06AM

Never mind magnets, I want a Tachyonic Antitelephone, and I want it 60 nanoseconds ago.

[URL="[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#Upper_limit_on_speeds"]Upper limit on speeds[/URL]:

If the spatial distance between two events A and B is greater than the time interval between them multiplied by c then there are frames of reference in which A precedes B, others in which B precedes A, and others in which they are simultaneous. As a result, if something were travelling faster than c relative to an inertial frame of reference, it would be travelling backwards in time relative to another frame, and causality would be violated. In such a frame of reference, an "effect" could be observed before its "cause". Such a violation of causality has never been recorded, and would lead to paradoxes such as the tachyonic antitelephone.

x in the city · 23-09-2011 12:06AM

joshrogan wrote: »

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BREAKING_LIGHT_SPEED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Time travel here we come :cool:

would be good if we could exterminate scumbags from the planet earth

unitedrover · 23-09-2011 12:08AM

How fast is speed of light?? only time i see light move is in lightning:eek:

Seachmall · 23-09-2011 12:14AM

unitedrover wrote: »

How fast is speed of light?? only time i see light move is in lightning:eek:

You've never seen light move.

Typically it's about 186,000 miles a second, too fast for the eye to see.

General General · 23-09-2011 12:14AM

Steorn will no doubt suggest that their thing has been using this fact...

Scientists have surpassed the speed of light!

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