So maybe e=mc^2 isn't quite right after all...?

[Arthur]

An academic friend tells me that news breaking out of CERN at the moment suggest that particles with mass might indeed travel faster than light, and that Einstein's famous equation isn't nearly as secure as supposed.

If so, there's a game-changer revolution in our understanding of physics happening under our noses ...

Nothing has hit the maintstream wires yet.

 

[Arthur]

Haha.

The same academic has just messaged me to say he's wrong - he had happened across some rehashed stuff on the interwebz relating to that 2011 experiment that turned out to be badly set up.

You can ignore this sensational report.

Whew. Relief!

Mods are free to delete this thread. Sorry for needless clicks caused. Seems academic are sometimes at the trailing edge.

 

[StellenboschStudent]

The world as i know it almost ended!

 

[ponder]

We have a forum member here that works at cern & his wife/gf is into the particle physics stuff there. Sure he would have let us known of such a large 'discovery'

 

[Arthur]

The world as i know it almost ended!

Yeah, I had five frantic minutes searching CERN and other phys sites, but zip. Then his follow-up IM arrived. Squirm.

For five minutes my universe collapsed like the wave function.

 

[cerebus]

 

[Vaughan]

We must always remember for science that everything discovered was relevant at the time it was discovered. It was done using the best technology we had available at time. We expect many scientific rules to be proven wrong or for minor values to be changed etc.

It does not take away from the great work done by the scientist. Often their discoveries could not have been proven wrong without the technology or knowledge that stemmed from the discoveries!

So even if he does eventually get proven wrong we should still acknowledge the impact the man had on science and that field in particular!

 

[AlphaJohn]

Erm its E²=(mc²)²+(pc)² not E=mc²

So yeah it is Wrong

 

[Arthur]

Sage words. Unlike philosophy, all our results in science are always provisional.

 

[Vegeta]

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dat-mass.jpg

 

[Sodan]

Phew. That was close.

 

[Sinbad]

Erm its E²=(mc²)²+(pc)² not E=mc²

So yeah it is Wrong

Came to say this

 

[grok]

No math equation is as secure as supposed..

not when it can be proven that 2+2=5 for significantly large values of 2

 

[Sinbad]

No math equation is as secure as supposed..

not when it can be proven that 2+2=5 for significantly large values of 2

Or for sufficiently negotiable values of accountant ...

 

[bekdik]

Haha.

The same academic has just messaged me to say he's wrong - he had happened across some rehashed stuff on the interwebz relating to that 2011 experiment that turned out to be badly set up.

You can ignore this sensational report.

Whew. Relief!

Mods are free to delete this thread. Sorry for needless clicks caused. Seems academic are sometimes at the trailing edge.

Bloody neutrinos, can't take them anywhere!

 

[kooldude]

My life collapsed when I saw this. Then I decided, I don't care.

 

[TooFastTim]

The same academic has just messaged me to say he's wrong - he had happened across some rehashed stuff on the interwebz relating to that 2011 experiment that turned out to be badly set up.

Your academic friend better learn to keep his mouth shut until he's sure he know what he's talking about if he's to stay in academia.

The Grand Sasso experiment was a cock up of note. The experimentalists were very careful about their conclusions and double checked everything but still missed the incorrect set up. Some very big names lost their jobs because of it.