Monday, 24 October 2011

Relativity / Speed of Light Broken?


Just thinking about the experiment that apparently fired a neutrino at faster than the speed of light. If they test this again and it's true, it doesn't mean Einstein was wrong in his equation E=mc2 ( energy = mass x speed of light(squared) )

- Light from the sun still takes an exact amount of time to reach us (8 seconds I believe) and it still takes a billionth of a second for these words to bounce off your eyeballs. -- If true, I think it will just prove that, like time, the speed of light is relative.....maybe Einstein just didnt live long enough to work it out

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Giant Galaxy NGC 6872 
Image Credit: Sydney Girls High School Astronomy Club,
Travis Rector (Univ. Alaska), Ángel López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Obs./ Macquarie Univ.), Australian Gemini Office

1 comment:

  1. This experiment is now being downplayed as an error in the GPS measurements (which themselves rely on Einstein's theory)

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