They beat the speed of light?

[Spatial]

But didn't that cause Tom Paris to turn into a Lizard?

I don't want to be a lizard you crazy scientists!

*starts sobbing*

[Dogg Thang]

This is just Half-Life waiting to happen, isn't it?

Many seem to be skeptical about it so it will be interesting to see how long it takes to verify or debunk. I ended up dropping out of physics in university so my knowledge is very limited but my logic with the speed of light was always this - yes, that's the speed it travels but what happens if you find a way of applying a force to it? Give it a push, so to speak. Speed of light plus force equals faster than speed of light. Whatever about the formulae, I don't see why the limit wouldn't be instantaneous. And that's probably one reason I dropped out - it's all about trusting a formula when I, in fact, didn't. Like here, some physicists have speculated this could open the door to travelling backwards in time, because that's where the maths would take them. But there are real-world realities too. It's easy to subtract 5 cups from 3 cups and end up with -2 cups in maths. In the real world you've still just got no cups.

[NW2013]

Can I hold my time traveller's party now?

[charlesr]

I'll be holding my time traveller's part last week.

Stuff comes out of black holes all the time which shouldn't happen, so I don't see why going faster than light shouldn't happen.

[Brad]

The barman says - We won't have neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light in here.
A neutrino walks into a bar



Sadly not mine, spotted on twitter.

[buster_broon]

They beat Warp 10 in ST Voyager remember!

they did in one episode but they turned into reptiles - lol at the geeks

['Press Start']

I watched some of the live conference where brainy people tried to de-bunk the test result, each question was batted away with solid results.

Interesting times.

[Spatial]

So, apparently, because the laws of physics as we know them have (potentially) been thrown out of the window, the people where I live have decided to totally tear up the rule book and decided that two bodies can now occupy the same time and space.

Meaning no more stopping at junctions or giving way to oncoming traffic in narrow spaces.

Hooray for science!

[EvilBoris]

This is just Half-Life waiting to happen, isn't it?

Many seem to be skeptical about it so it will be interesting to see how long it takes to verify or debunk. I ended up dropping out of physics in university so my knowledge is very limited but my logic with the speed of light was always this - yes, that's the speed it travels but what happens if you find a way of applying a force to it? Give it a push, so to speak. Speed of light plus force equals faster than speed of light. Whatever about the formulae, I don't see why the limit wouldn't be instantaneous. And that's probably one reason I dropped out - it's all about trusting a formula when I, in fact, didn't. Like here, some physicists have speculated this could open the door to travelling backwards in time, because that's where the maths would take them. But there are real-world realities too. It's easy to subtract 5 cups from 3 cups and end up with -2 cups in maths. In the real world you've still just got no cups.

Is that the theory that say a spaceship was flying at the speed of light and it fired a gun from the front of it, you expect the bullet to move faster than the ship. But according to the einstein's theories, that is impossible.

It would also mean it would be impossible to walk from the back of the ship to the front as you would actually be moving faster than the speed of light.

[Dogg Thang]

Yes, that's it. If I remember correctly (which I might not) the closer you get to light speed, the smaller you get so, if you hit light speed, you'd be crushed to nothing. Or something. My memory for all this stuff is pretty hazy. But, in that case, you couldn't walk to the front of the ship as you'd be very dead but still basic uneducated (and so possibly wrong) common sense says that if you can hit light speed and then push that bit further, you're faster than the speed of light. But, to me, it would seem instantaneous would be the natural limit. Once you hit that, you can't walk to the front because your journey is already complete.

[averybluemonkey]

The requirement that you can't travel faster than the speed of light appears to be something that the public have latched onto but it was never the basis for special relativity at all, only a crutch/rule put in place because otherwise all the maths breaks down. Einstein's formulae will likely be proven wrong in the same way that Newton's were, a closer model of reality but not the whole deal. The idea that this will lead to time travel is based on the assumption that a gentlemen from the early 1900s cracked with 100% accuracy the entire model of the physical universe.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Hawkin admitted that he'd buggered up, so this wont be a surprise.

[Neon Ignition]

Wouldn't surprise me if light speed wasn't the potential maximum velocity, though sadly time travel will never be on the cards.

[nakamura]

Time Travel will never happen, my tiny brain is sure of that. Still, interesting though.

[fishbowlhead]

What if the nutrino wasn't travelling faster that light but simply fazed out of our time/space/dimension, then fazed back in at another point, making it appear that it was in motion?