--- On Point with Tom Ashbrook --- E=mc2 is the one piece of physics everybody knows. Einstein’s special relativity theory. 1905. Says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. It’s the basis, the bedrock, of modern physics. And last week, out of the big CERN facility in Europe, the stunning news that some speedy little neutrinos have been clocked traveling faster. Faster than the speed of light.
To physicists, that’s more than an earthquake. Most are skeptical so far. Waiting for confirmation. But if it were true? Time travel fans, start your engines. This hour On Point: speedy neutrinos rock Einstein’s world. http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/09/29/tracking-neutrinos (Audio available shortly after broadcast) On Sep 29, 2011, at 10:57 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > NYT: > > > The physics world is abuzz with news that a group of European physicists > plans to announce Friday that it has clocked a burst of subatomic particles > known as neutrinos breaking the cosmic speed limit — the speed of light — > that was set by Albert Einstein in 1905. > > If true, it is a result that would change the world. But that “if” is > enormous. > > Even before the European physicists had presented their results — in a paper > that appeared on the physics Web site arXiv.org on Thursday night and in a > seminar atCERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, on Friday — a > chorus of physicists had risen up on blogs and elsewhere arguing that it was > way too soon to give up on Einstein and that there was probably some > experimental error. Incredible claims require incredible evidence. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23speed.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=neutrinos&st=cse > > ___ ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
