CERN scientists 'break the speed of light'

[searpinski]

...you screw up your ship's dilithium crystals and have to steal nuclear energy from an aircraft carrier to weld the fractured crystals back together so you can get home to your correct time, even if Spock does have to 'guess' on account of the variables introduced with the fractured crystals.

If they would have used trilithium, they wouldn't have had this problem. I keep hoping they redo #4 to address that issue.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Looks like it was a mistake. Bad fiber connection threw off their timing.
The Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos That Weren't: The Data That Threatened to Break Physics

haha

I was just getting ready to post that a 60 ns difference makes me question the accuracy of the measurements.

Interesting stuff, nonetheless.

Except the original article was from 2011? Time travel?

Well....****! First law of posting stories you find interesting is to double check the date written.

 

[halfmileharry]

Sheldon Cooper will figure it out!

He's NOT crazy ya know.

 

[voidsherpa]

If you are traveling the speed of light, and you fire a gun in the same direction, does the gun not fire?

 

[T.Lex]

If you are traveling the speed of light, and you fire a gun in the same direction, does the gun not fire?

It does, but it will do it a few seconds before you pull the trigger.

That's why KF hates hyperdrive. And liberty.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

It does, but it will do it a few seconds before you pull the trigger.

That's why KF hates hyperdrive. And liberty.

What if the gun is mounted on a treadmill traveling at the speed of light?

 

[printcraft]

If you are traveling the speed of light, and you fire a gun in the same direction, does the gun not fire?

Mind bending isn't it?

Einsteine is a OT (original troll)

 

[Spear Dane]

Another effect is that the faster you go, the shorter your spaceship gets as it would be perceived by a stationary observer. At the speed of light, it would no longer have length.

/denny

I had never heard this before. To quote the pointy eared one, "Fascinating"

 

[KLB]

Well....****! First law of posting stories you find interesting is to double check the date written.

All good. Your post made me research it and I learned something new today.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

All good. Your post made me research it and I learned something new today.

Old news you never heard is still news. I'm just disappointed it was for naught because some jack leg gaumed up a fiber optic connector.