By Ang Ka i Wen
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By Ang Kai Wen
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“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possibleexception of bad news , which obeys its own special laws.”
-Douglas Adams ,"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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The Large Hadron Collider & aParticle Accelerator
The OPERA neutrinocapturing device.
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Neutrinos were found to travel faster than the speed oflight by 60 nanoseconds
Neutrinos are almost mass-less, and should be able toapproach the speed of light, but not travel faster than it
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“The potential impact on science is too large … My first reaction is that the neutrino is still surprising us with
its mysteries .
• OPERA spokesperson, AntonioEreditato (University of Bern)
There is plenty of evidence that all sorts of other particles never travel faster than light …observations of neutrinos areexceptionally difficult … [i]t is as if someone said that there arefairies in the bottom of their garden, butthey can only be seen on dark, foggynights.
• Theoretical physicist, Steven Weinberg,1979 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner
OMFG-WTF-THISISAMAZING!!!!! Vs LETS CALM DOWN
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All of modern physics as we knowand teach is based on Einstein'sspecial and general theories ofrelativity …I would consider this the physics revolution of the century.
• Neutrino physicist Karsten Heeger(University of Wisconsin – Madison)
OMFG-WTF-THISISAMAZING!!!!! Vs LETS CALM DOWN
"I'm willing to bet money that it's notcorrect . There are many distortions inphysics. You have to have a very highstandard to see if something is trulycorrect,"
Astrophysicist, George Smoot III , 2006 NobelPrize in Physics Winner
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9My7tBjkQQ
Prof, the link I think explains relativity in very simple layman’s termsespecially from the 1.20minute to 3.30minute mark, and if I were presenting
I would show the video simply to explain the theory.
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Methodology Error - GPS MeasurementLimitations
• GPS used to synchronize clocks betweenCERN & Gran Sasso (to determine speed ofneutrinos)
• Ronald van Elburg (University of Groningen)argues that GPS-synchronized clocks do notfunction the same as ground based clocks
• They function slower as they are receivingsignals from satellites in space moving inreference to Earth! (relativity solves itself)
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A theory that exceptions do exist especially as neutrinos are “special” • Neutrinos as the an extension to the
Standard Model? – a special exception torelativity (like tachyonic particles)
• Neutrinos travel through “another dimension”
Up to 26 possible dimensions asProposed by string theory
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