They beat the speed of light?

[Brad]

Oh my god! It works! Time travel actually works!

[booth83]

They beat the speed of light?

Been reading with interest this story today

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

So what do people think, if true, the ramifications of this could be? time travel? I'm no science boff so the details don't mean much to me but like i say, find it interesting.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Einstein had a theory, not scientific proof.

No surprise if he's found to be wrong really.

[toythatkills]

Eu=mc2

The u stands for "usually"

[EvilBoris]

Einstein had a theory, not scientific proof.

No surprise if he's found to be wrong really.

And it shows just how crazy clever he must of been for it to take this long for anybody to prove him wrong. Even though they haven't just yet.
People have claimed to of disproven Einstein's theories to be wrong in the past, it just turns out they have made a mistake.

[MartyG]

We should probably be cautious - the measurements we're talking about are billionths of a second. I suspect there might be room for error.

[parkinho]

Fascinating stuff, not had chance to read the paper yet but hopefully will do on Sunday. Will be very interesting to see if others are able to reproduce the results independently, if so we could be looking at the biggest scientific discovery in a very long time. As luck would have it I am teaching relativity and the validation of new scientific theories next week so this news couldn't have come at a better time.

[Rossco]

Nah, it's because the time difference between Cern, Switzerland and Gran Sasso, Italy is 0.00000006 seconds. They just forgot to adjust for that. Schoolboy error.

[EJG1980]

I really hope that this doesn't turn out to be a mistake, simply because I'd like to be alive when a really amazing scientific discovery / breakthrough like this happens

Nah, it's because the time difference between Cern, Switzerland and Gran Sasso, Italy is 0.00000006 seconds. They just forgot to adjust for that. Schoolboy error.

Their error was that they were on the phone and shouted "Okay, go! Start measuring!" to begin the experiment

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

And it shows just how crazy clever he must of been for it to take this long for anybody to prove him wrong. Even though they haven't just yet.
People have claimed to of disproven Einstein's theories to be wrong in the past, it just turns out they have made a mistake.

Naaaah!! He meant to come clean about it being bollox on his deathbed, but alas the speed of sound wasnt fast enough!

[toythatkills]

I've made a really enlightening post about this, should show up some time in 2014.

[booth83]

I too hope it turns out to be true for pretty much the same reason, exciting times ahead wondering what knowledge will be gained off the back of it, but remain open minded that it could just be a mistake, still, even if it is just billionths of second, it's still faster. I like the ethos of science whereby everything starts with a theory, which is then tested and scrutinised until proven wrong, or, "there are no universal truths, just views of the world that are yet to be proven false". lifted from brian coxes book 'why does e=mc2?' which i'm going to start reading again, the whole space/time chapter melted my brain the first time round and i had to give up on it

[toythatkills]

Reading it? I'd be demanding a refund.

[buster_broon]

Pah speed of light warp speed 10 is where it's at - beat that bad boy

[kryss]

They beat Warp 10 in ST Voyager remember!