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Align · **on:** September 22, 2011, 11:59:44 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484

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Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.

"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.

"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.

"When you don't find anything, then you say 'Well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this.'"

Phi · **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2011, 12:54:56 AM

Light is the fastest form of transportation... I wonder how this would work, exactly.

I'm calling scientific error.

Acid · **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2011, 01:34:48 AM

So it's basically Warp 2 speed.

Neat.

Bueno Excelente · **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2011, 01:39:54 AM

Quote from: Archetype on September 23, 2011, 12:54:56 AM

Light is the fastest form of transportation... I wonder how this would work, exactly.

I'm calling scientific error.

...that's exactly what they have just disproven. Light is no longer the fastest form of transportation.

Dr. Wily II · **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2011, 12:43:10 PM

Very fascinating news... Albeit shocking.
If the scientific community can't disprove this... As stated, the whole foundation of modern physics... Just... POOF

MAD SCIENCE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Reaperoid · **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2011, 12:45:03 PM

What I played: LHC
What I thought I was getting: Microsingularities
What I got: Subatomic particles exceeding the speed of light

Rin · **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2011, 01:24:41 PM

Oh wow.
This should be interesting. : D

Krystal · **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2011, 02:22:36 PM

Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon · **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2011, 01:25:50 AM

Quote from: Archetype on September 23, 2011, 12:54:56 AM

Light is the fastest form of transportation... I wonder how this would work, exactly.

I'm calling scientific error.

Since when was light a mode of transport? I saw it more as a potential medium for relaying information.

Also, wasn't there something like this before? I thought quarks could always travel at ludicrous speed.

Dr. Wily II · **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2011, 02:52:04 PM

Quote from: Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon on September 26, 2011, 01:25:50 AM

I thought quarks could always travel at ludicrous speed.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0[/youtube]

Setsuna F. Seiei · **Reply #10 on:** September 28, 2011, 11:26:44 PM

Particles moving faster then SoL have happened before ages ago.

Align · **Reply #11 on:** September 29, 2011, 11:18:36 AM

Source?

Flame · **Reply #12 on:** September 29, 2011, 12:29:55 PM

Quote from: Setsuna F. Seiei on September 28, 2011, 11:26:44 PM

Particles moving faster then SoL have happened before ages ago.

like?

Bueno Excelente · **Reply #13 on:** September 29, 2011, 06:04:38 PM

Warp drives.

I know they're real cuz I've seen mistah Spock use'em on the telly.

Align · **Reply #14 on:** September 29, 2011, 08:05:03 PM

There is a theoretically sound concept for such a device on wikipedia.
The problem is just how to do it, and the fact that once you start it you can't stop...

Archer · **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2011, 03:02:16 PM

CERN dystopia future confirmed?

Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon · **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2011, 08:54:26 PM

Quote from: Archer on October 02, 2011, 03:02:16 PM

CERN dystopia future confirmed?

get out ray bradbury

Bueno Excelente · **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2011, 09:11:05 PM

Quote from: Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon on October 03, 2011, 08:54:26 PM

get out ray bradbury

[acid burst] off, Aldous Huxley.

Mirby · **Reply #18 on:** October 03, 2011, 09:35:43 PM

Quote from: Bueno Excelente on October 03, 2011, 09:11:05 PM

[acid burst] off, Aldous Huxley.

*gives Bueno some Soma*

Reaperoid · **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2011, 01:00:06 AM

Quote from: Archer on October 02, 2011, 03:02:16 PM

CERN dystopia future confirmed?

Why? The end of the world is nothing to be conCERNed about.

Bueno Excelente · **Reply #20 on:** October 04, 2011, 01:13:41 AM

Quote from: Mirby on October 03, 2011, 09:35:43 PM

*gives Bueno some Soma*

Hope that knowledge is from the book! Too few people read it nowadays. It and 1984 are pretty much companion pieces which deserve attention.

Mirby · **Reply #21 on:** October 04, 2011, 11:07:37 AM

Yes, that's exactly what it's from.

Why are you still coherent?

Bueno Excelente · **Reply #22 on:** October 04, 2011, 11:25:55 AM

Because I'm a savage who gloriously screws around with soma-driven females lost in the wilderness.

All this time, and it's still the book that better describes our society as a whole. Dystopia not forced on us, but that we want.

Mirby · **Reply #23 on:** October 04, 2011, 11:47:03 AM

And humans made on the assembly line too, all thanks to Ford.

It's getting there too... D:

Reaperoid · **Reply #24 on:** October 16, 2011, 01:33:56 PM

Relevant:

News

CERN results showing faster than light neutrino

Archer