Particles Found To Move Faster than Light.

i don't think so because the speed of light is still constant, we just have proof that it isn' the fasted speed
 
Yes in the article it says, "If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster. That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works."
 
BULLSHIT!! But seriously when something goes the speed of light time slows down to a stop, so as soon as you go faster then light you basically time travel. Or so science has thought since now. If this is true it changes everything.
 
yeah but e=mc2 isn't the only thing that came out from that theory. that equation is still valid IMO since c (the speed of light) doesn't change even though something is moving faster. I think they're talking about ah man I don'T know how to explain it though, I'll try my best haha. If you're going at 0,99999c and you're traveling side by side with something that travels at c, you'll see that thing going as fast as someone who is standing still. You'll see it go at the speed of light even if you're almost traveling at that speed. I don't know if it makes sense to you. So yeah, if something is going faster than the speed of light, they have to explain what would happen in a similar situation.

It's what I think but I can be completely wrong too.
 
E=mc^2 still works, none of that changed. It was thought that light speed could not be exceeded, but perhaps it can.
 
"Much science-fiction literature is based on the idea that, if the light-speed barrier can be overcome, time travel might theoretically become possible."

oh shittttt.
 
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I think the human circumstance is about to get really weird within the next couple of years. We are going to discover things that are going to alter our perception of what it means to be alive and what it means to be dead and what exactly we are in the cosmos. Pretty cool. History is just a transitional period from the time we left the forest until we actually discover our circumstance. History is just a phase we go through in order to discover the unknown.
 
And i think we are getting pretty close to the point of a huge paradigm shift in how we all see life. I think this is a secret embedded into the biological world. Those who had tight connections with nature could actually map out history and see what is coming and I think thats how so many different cultures all arrived at the same date in 2012. The rate of our discovries of the world is exponential. Each year we learn more and more and at a ever increasing rate. I am excited to see what the next couple of years will bring as far as scientific and biological advancement, as well as technological advancements.
 
I love the scientific achievements man has succeeded in in the past 100 years.
 
.......? yea your not gonna see anything that small, especially if its going faster than the speed of light. u mean the data? what exactly are you requesting to see that the article didn't illuminate?
 
False, tachyons are not recognized by the scientific field as being faster than the speed of light. Tachyons are understood as signifying an instability of the system and dismissed through tachyon condensation, rather than being treated as real faster-than-light particles, and such instabilities are described by tachyonic fields. Tachyonic fields have appeared theoretically in a variety of contexts, such as the bosonic string theory. According to the contemporary and widely accepted understanding of the concept of a particle, tachyon particles are too unstable to be treated as existent.[4] According to that theory, faster than light information transmission and causality violation with tachyons are impossible.
 
I'm with Happy on this one, tachyons have been known for years. not that this isn't a significant discovery, it is nice to have proof of things moving faster than m
 
Already was possible. If you can travel at relativistic speeds you can age slower than someone on the earth for example. However because time changes, distances will change.

The discovery will definitely mess up time dilation because with a speed greater than the speed of light you will end up with an imaginary number... confusing. See below:

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v = velocity c = speed of light t = proper time t' = calculated time.

I wonder who's gonna be the one to rewrite relativity after this discovery though... crazy stuff
 
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