Showing posts with label CERN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CERN. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2011

The Associated Press: Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged

I don't know what to think about this. I mean it's been drilled into me that nothing can go faster than the speed of light and I've even seen the equations in physics blow up and go "gaga" if light is ever faster than 3.0 times 10 to the 8 meters per second. It's in all the textbooks I've ever read. So what's happening? End of the world?

Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that there are measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.
"This is ridiculous what they're putting out," Baden said, calling it the equivalent of claiming that a flying carpet is invented only to find out later that there was an error in the experiment somewhere. "Until this is verified by another group, it's flying carpets. It's cool, but ..."


Nope. I think that is a good idea to just wait this out and see if the findings from CERN are verified. Even if it is, I see no reason to totally rewrite all of Physics.

The Associated Press: Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged
Enhanced by Zemanta