Posted on 09/22/2011 6:57:08 PM PDT by danielmryan
It’s either measurement error or we’ll need quantum correction to general relativity (but everyone was expecting to need quantum corrections to GR anyway).
And still no Higgs boson . . .
I knew those proton pills weren’t all that. ;^)
Roger the Pill-popper.
Only the ones you have seen.
Maybe angels have no mass.
Not so fast! Serendipity. A lot of stuff was invented purely by accident, while the creators were unsuccessfully trying to create the stuff of their dreams. Post-it notes, as I recall came about from failed attempts to market a strong reusable glue. Years later a colleague accidentally stumbled across a use while gluing a bookmark in his hymnbook. Things that make you go "hymn..."
Well, yeah, *rest* mass; on the other side, neutrinos aren’t either fully massless for every definition of mass - gotta check that, I don’t have the exact figures right here.
See “Cherenkov Radiation”. High speed particles regularly enter the earths atmosphere at superluminal speeds. That is, they exceed the speed of light in that particular medium. This experiment seems to show superluminal speeds in a vacuum. Bad boys, breaking the law.. Would be a huge finding if duplicated, although I suspect an explanation will be found that does not upset Einstein.
That's covered under the 'Sh*t Happens' clause. Still, without the 'mind' of man attempting to 'create', post-it notes would never have been a reality.
P.S. Mostly it is due to the fact that we are ‘imperfect’ creators, and only GOD is a PERFECT CREATOR.
I wonder how much the ticket is for breaking the speed of light?
I believe the ‘wheel’ was an accident left over from the attempt to find a better way to grind wheat and rice.
They were so fast they got there before they were sent...
Never underestimate that this could be global warmists claiming Co2 affects the speed of light (nutrinos). They will spin this to harm freedom.
That would be "affect", not "effect".
Actually, Neutrinos do have a very VERY small mass.
I recommend the book Neutrino by Frank Close. Really good overview of the history and science of the Neutrino.
Beat me to it. Yup, they have mass. 3 different types of neutrinos are differetiated by their different masses. Scientists had thought them massless years ago, though.
Steven Wright had it correct many years ago. “If you’re traveling in a spacecraft at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on...does it make any difference?”
[One question comes to mind: why didn’t the neutrinos travel backwards in time?]
Because time is a derivative function of state-change and has no “backwards” to travel into.
Oh...you mean the speed of dark.
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