> Don't bury Einstein yet: > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20957-dimensionhop-may-allow-neutrinos-to-cheat-light-speed.html > > "Sher also mentions a third option: that the measurement is correct. > Some theories posit that there are extra, hidden dimensions beyond the > familiar four (three of space, one of time). It's possible that the > speedy neutrinos tunnel through these extra dimensions, reducing the > distance they have to travel to get to the target. This would explain > the measurement without requiring the speed of light to be broken." > > Those neutrinos probably knew a short cut in the other 6 dimensions. :-)
I wouldn't bury him, at all. Einstein stands correct with respect to the three dimensions of space. SR defines the behavior or expression of electromagnetic fields in three dimensions, in particular, with regard to movement. "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies" is clear enough as a title, and the author of that cornerstone paper stands correct. What is missing, and it's missing for centuries, is a clear physical (also epistemological, philosophical, and ultimately, spiritual) understanding of the implications of said behaviour of electromagnetic fields, and therefore, also in the last instance, of subatomic particles and, therefore, so called ordinary matter. To talk extensively about that would take us very far. Maybe it suffices to say that that understanding is missing for very specific reasons: it challenges (and ultimately overturns) the century old tradition and paradigm of science, and of Physics in particular, as a materialistic and mechanistic endeavour. Light(and also matter, ultimately) behaves non-mechanically, and has, (if we understand matter as "something having tri-dimensional, spatial, extent"), also a non-material aspect, or component. Regards, Mauro
