Still lots of internet news about this lately. Back in September,some CERN experiments got a lot of attention when it released an improbable news that neutrinos travel about 60 nanoseconds faster than light. The experiment was repeated lots of times and they released same results last week.
Neutrinos are electrically neutral elementary subatomic particles. And because its has no charge it is not affected by the electromagnetic forces that act on charged particles such as electrons and protons with this; its is able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected. You can imagine it passing through you body right now.
Going back to why this is causing quiet a stir to the science world today. Einstein's relativilty explains that nothing could travel faster than light. As an object moves more quickly the more it also gains more mass. Accelerating an object up to over the speed of light would require infinite energy because it gets harder and harder to push the faster it goes. This is a fundamental law of our physics today.
If this is true, neutrinos violates the core of Einstein's theory and fundamental laws of physics. Physics as we know it would need to be rewritten. An exciting implication everybody is now thinking is that it means that time travel to the past is possible. Remember Back to the Future 1? And here we go again with time travel paradoxes.
Many of our bright scientists are still skeptical that breaking light speed is possible, so other labs around the world including US and Japan are now redoing the same experiments to prove/disprove CENR results. All are expected to publish their results in the coming months as we wait and relax till we hear from it again.
Neutrinos are electrically neutral elementary subatomic particles. And because its has no charge it is not affected by the electromagnetic forces that act on charged particles such as electrons and protons with this; its is able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected. You can imagine it passing through you body right now.
Going back to why this is causing quiet a stir to the science world today. Einstein's relativilty explains that nothing could travel faster than light. As an object moves more quickly the more it also gains more mass. Accelerating an object up to over the speed of light would require infinite energy because it gets harder and harder to push the faster it goes. This is a fundamental law of our physics today.
If this is true, neutrinos violates the core of Einstein's theory and fundamental laws of physics. Physics as we know it would need to be rewritten. An exciting implication everybody is now thinking is that it means that time travel to the past is possible. Remember Back to the Future 1? And here we go again with time travel paradoxes.
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| I borrowed and edited this from a Barok comic strip |
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