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joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
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#26: Sep 22nd 2011 at 2:29:48 PM

As cool as this sounds I'm skeptical.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#27: Sep 22nd 2011 at 2:32:04 PM

So then speed of light works like speed of sound in that both have breachable (with some difficulty) barriers? Or are they saying no barriers exist?

edited 22nd Sep '11 2:32:26 PM by FFShinra

BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
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#28: Sep 22nd 2011 at 2:43:13 PM
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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#29: Sep 22nd 2011 at 2:46:57 PM

Let's not make this thread about religion v. science. Please.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#30: Sep 22nd 2011 at 2:50:16 PM

What's with the thing about Einstein being wrong, anyway? I thought his views on local realism were sort of almost well known.

60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light

Argh.

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Kzickas Since: Apr, 2009
#31: Sep 22nd 2011 at 2:53:48 PM

Did you know the person who wrote that is several watts shorter than me?

edited 22nd Sep '11 2:54:04 PM by Kzickas

Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
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#32: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:02:54 PM

Woah.

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GreatLich Since: Jun, 2009
#33: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:03:34 PM

Meh.

I'll hold the enthusiasm, until I read about the other experiments that got same/similar results. That'll be the real excitement.

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#34: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:09:06 PM
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#35: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:13:06 PM
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TheEarthSheep Christmas Sheep from a Pasture hexagon Since: Sep, 2010
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#36: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:13:32 PM

I love science.

Just a few weeks ago I was having a conversation with this guy about how cool it is that we don't know everything, that there are always new barriers to breach. He kept insisting that there was absolutely no way that Einstein will ever be shown to be wrong.

Everything changes, and it's fantastic.

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Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
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#37: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:14:17 PM

I never really fully believed Einstein theory that nothing can go faster then light.

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#38: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:14:47 PM

[W]e don't know everything[;] there are always new barriers to breach.

That's one of the best traits of science. It's absolutely beautiful.

edited 22nd Sep '11 3:15:49 PM by BestOf

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pagad Sneering Imperialist from perfidious Albion Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#39: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:24:10 PM

Please, please, please let this actually go somewhere and not just be a rounding error or some bullshit. I know too many smug physicists.

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#40: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:26:56 PM

They have general relativity effects factored in, right? Please tell me they did.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#41: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:27:03 PM

How is "some physicists showed that some other physicists were wrong" supposed to be anti-physics?

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pagad Sneering Imperialist from perfidious Albion Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#42: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:28:57 PM

I amend my statement to "smug physics undergraduates".

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#43: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:29:36 PM

This is clearly the next step in CERN's plot to take of the world. and create a Dystopia

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#44: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:33:14 PM

CERN is actually the flux capacitor. I expect De Loreans flying out of clouds by the hundreds this time next year.

RufusShinra Statistical Unlikeliness from Paris Since: Apr, 2011
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#45: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:38:54 PM

Is this really a problem if CERN takes over the world? A lot of countries would probably get affordable education with them in command. ^_^;

edited 22nd Sep '11 3:39:08 PM by RufusShinra

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FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#46: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:43:40 PM

Boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada, boom-de-yada...

Twenty years from now, our friends from Alpha Centauri will approach our first interstellar ship as it goes on its merry way and say, "It took you guys long enough."

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#47: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:45:27 PM

Unless CERN is trying to run some kind of publicity stunt, the reason results like these are going public is because they can't find what they did wrong, and they need some help from others to determine what this means.

There could still be some error overlooked somewhere, but turning to the international community does make it very likely that they tried their best and couldn't catch anything in the math that makes it unreliable.

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#48: Sep 22nd 2011 at 3:57:16 PM

There almost certainly is an error somewhere. See my previous post.

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#49: Sep 22nd 2011 at 4:00:17 PM

Storyyeller, tempting as it is to think that, see this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484

The experiment has been repeated by Cern often enough with the same results to warrant a formal scientific discovery by all existing standards. Only because of the implications are they this Hell bent on seeing it duplicated independantly first.

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occono from Ireland. Since: Apr, 2009
#50: Sep 22nd 2011 at 4:00:25 PM

I don't find "Purple Moon Cheese" a fair metaphor or an effective shutdown.

edited 22nd Sep '11 4:00:51 PM by occono

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