Posted on 11/18/2011 11:53:59 AM PST by TN4Liberty
Einstein’s gonna be pissed.
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I tried looking up this information, but found nothing much: what makes light travel at any given speed; what governs it? Is it the maximum speed of an electron in orbit around a nucleus?
Everyone be sure to keep this in mind the next time some blowhard claims that “the science is settled” regarding global warming.
So? The speed of light is something most people will never grasp. Of the few who can, most of them don’t care. It is interesting to a miniscule portion of the planet, just something else for the 99% to protest.
I’ve never believed in the light-speed limit. Ever.
Not that I had a scientific reason for it....it just sounds stupid to me.
It’d be cool if the experiments are confirmed by other teams: I don’t mind being right for no reason other than I totally guessed the answer.....
Einstein doesn’t care. He’s dead. He has other things to worry about, or he doesn’t. In that case, he can ask God directly for the secrets of the universe.
If there is a consensus it has to be the truth! Right?
Superluminal speeds just ain’t what they used to be!
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
Einstein may now have been debunked on the Speed of Light, as was in his theorems gravitational forces.
We think we know so much, when we hardly know anything
“I tried looking up this information, but found nothing much: what makes light travel at any given speed; what governs it?”
I am thinking the NRC or maybe the EPA governs it.
Sorry, habit.
“He has other things to worry about, or he doesn’t”
They didn’t bury him in that box with the cat, did they?
Next Wednesday afternoon on the interstates leaving Atlanta the cops won't bother pulling over anyone doing less than that.
Quite right. This second experiment presumably measures time-of-flight in the same way as the first one did - and I'm betting there's an incorrect assumption (or perhaps subtle equipment malfunction) in that measurement.
Proves at least what I have always thought could happen, is that we could actually be going down a branch of physics that, however suitable for many purposes, is actually a rabbit trail.
Should this be accepted as good data, it opens up a whole new debate as to how did this happen, who did what and why, is this similar to the East Anglia debacle, to further one’s own carrer, political, etc.
Damn, I miss that congresscritter from Ohio with the muskrat on his head.
Then again, had Einstein been aware of this new information, he may have been able to work out his unification theory.
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