speed of light "broken".

[skotgun]

source.

discuss.

 

[ki_atsushi]

I read this the other day.

It's not proven yet, but even if it is repeated it's not surprising. Why did we have to put a theoretical speed limit on everything in the universe anyway? I understand that it makes calculations easier, but there can always be exceptions.

 

[SetaSouji??]

The molecules in question don't move forward in time, but rather move time around itself. Silly scientists...

 

[Gigaton Chode]

I already broke it in Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

 

[evil wasabi]

The molecules in question don't move forward in time, but rather move time around itself. Silly scientists...

wavefunction collapse makes analysis difficult when suddenly a whole slew of variables overlap and give the impression of impossibilities made possible. At the end of the day, when you actually look at the cat, it is either alive or dead. Until properly observed, it may be both, or a dildo.

 

[SetaSouji??]

Until properly observed, it may be both, or a dildo.

Or both with a living dildo inside. Terrible atrocity to science...

 

[Curt]

I like the notion that this is one of the first steps toward sending things through extra dimensions.... Fucking mind blowing.

Until we have more proof... (another lab getting the same result)

THIS:

 

[Xian Xi]

Fun fact, Einstein's brain was actually 1lb lighter than the average human brain.

 

[BobbyPeru]

Also, he had some anomalous brain formation that caused the area of his brain that dealt with spacial awareness to be larger that has yet to be seen in another human brain.

 

[aria]

I already broke it in Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

LOL, if people didn't immediately get the reference they owe it to themselves to read the review and watch the video here:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/review.html

 

[Curt]

YOU'RE WINNER.

This one too. The Who Makes it quite inspirational. I like to think that even Einstein would approve.

I feel like a fucking champion after watching this. It makes me feel like I can accomplish anything!

 

[SNKorSWM]

It's only a limit to matter. Antimatter, by definition, are just matter that goes over the speed of light and travels through time in reverse.

 

[fake]

It's only a limit to matter. Antimatter, by definition, are just matter that goes over the speed of light and travels through time in reverse.

Um no. And the particle that traveled faster than the speed of light was a neutrino, which is not an antimatter particle.

There is a cosmic speed limit because the faster you travel, the more mass you take on. Einstein thought that anything would reach an infinite amount of mass if it reached the speed of light.

I think physics is wrong in a lot of places. Just look at gravity. The way stars travel around their galaxies makes no sense according to the laws of gravity. Neither does the way that galaxy travel around each other. I think we know much less than we assume about the universe.

 

[aria]

This one too. The Who Makes it quite inspirational. I like to think that even Einstein would approve.

I feel like a fucking champion after watching this. It makes me feel like I can accomplish anything!

So, so awesome.

That truck was going over 283x the speed of light. I just used this online warp speed calculator to confirm that it was therefore going over [highlight]Warp 5[/highlight] (5.44 to be closer).

The only thing that would've made that video more perfect would've been stopping the truck on a dime the second the song ended.

 

[Comrade Porn King Mikhail]

Just rewatched Event Horizon. Made me think of what CERN and the Hadron Collider are trying to achieve. Have they even watched Event Horizon?!?

The last 15 minutes blow the buildup of fear, but the first half of that movie is as good as any Alien flick.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Um no. And the particle that traveled faster than the speed of light was a neutrino, which is not an antimatter particle.

There is a cosmic speed limit because the faster you travel, the more mass you take on. Einstein thought that anything would reach an infinite amount of mass if it reached the speed of light.

I think physics is wrong in a lot of places. Just look at gravity. The way stars travel around their galaxies makes no sense according to the laws of gravity. Neither does the way that galaxy travel around each other. I think we know much less than we assume about the universe.

Neutrino is just a generic name for a whole bunch of zero charge particles that are much lighter than an electron, some neutrinos are antimatter with regards to other neutrinos.

 

[OrochiEddie]

my roomate is a PhD physics student and he says the scientific community is pretty suspicious in general. I proceeded to make slightly politically incorrect Italian impressions involving how fast Mario's Vespa goes.

 

[SML]

Neutrino is just a generic name for a whole bunch of zero charge particles that are much lighter than an electron, some neutrinos are antimatter with regards to other neutrinos.

Antimatter is not matter that travels faster than the speed of light and backwards through time. Don't molt into a wizkid.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Antimatter is not matter that travels faster than the speed of light and backwards through time. Don't molt into a wizkid.

That's exactly what it is, in terms of quantum field theory.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101130000148AAwaTGz
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/391/is-anti-matter-matter-going-backwards-in-time

But hey if you got a different take on it, I'd love to hear it of course.

 

[ki_atsushi]

That's exactly what it is, in terms of quantum field theory.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101130000148AAwaTGz
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/391/is-anti-matter-matter-going-backwards-in-time

But hey if you got a different take on it, I'd love to hear it of course.

Bunch of 3rd hand information. I'll wait for the link to a real jorunal article.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Journal article costs subscription money, dude. At least the ones that are worth a damn. XD

 

[aria]

Journal article costs subscription money, dude. At least the ones that are worth a damn. XD

Abstracts are free and tell you the gist of what you need to know.

 

[evil wasabi]

Why is everyone just standing around with their thumbs up their assholes. You'd think one of these fucking Ph.Ds would fix it already.

 

[SetaSouji??]

Scientists are lazy, I can tell you this first hand.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Abstracts are free and tell you the gist of what you need to know.

Ok, here's the abstract:

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v76/i6/p749_1

This is the pertinent part:

In this solution, the "negative energy states" appear in a form which may be pictured (as by Stückelberg) in space-time as waves traveling away from the external potential backwards in time. Experimentally, such a wave corresponds to a positron approaching the potential and annihilating the electron. A particle moving forward in time (electron) in a potential may be scattered forward in time (ordinary scattering) or backward (pair annihilation). When moving backward (positron) it may be scattered backward in time (positron scattering) or forward (pair production). For such a particle the amplitude for transition from an initial to a final state is analyzed to any order in the potential by considering it to undergo a sequence of such scatterings.