Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result

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Steven said:
The team behind the finding in September that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and found the same result.
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It's not such a shocking revelation and it doesn't follow that warp drive and time travel are possible. Neutrinos are virtually mass-less particles, so it doesn't violate E=mc^2 by travelling at lightspeed. In terms of scale, if a hydrogen atom was the size of the Solar system, a single neutrino would be the size of a golfball. That's ****ing small.
 
"You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
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Macky said:
It's not such a shocking revelation and it doesn't follow that warp drive and time travel are possible. Neutrinos are virtually mass-less particles, so it doesn't violate E=mc^2 by travelling at lightspeed. In terms of scale, if a hydrogen atom was the size of the Solar system, a single neutrino would be the size of a golfball. That's ****ing small.
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Crikey. It's been a long and lonely road but I think I've found someone with some perspective and understanding on the issue.

We should move out to the country together, throw away our televisions and live in glorious, glorious isolation.
 
Does this all mean the Borg are definitely coming, or what ?
 
Macky said:
It's not such a shocking revelation and it doesn't follow that warp drive and time travel are possible. Neutrinos are virtually mass-less particles, so it doesn't violate E=mc^2 by travelling at lightspeed. In terms of scale, if a hydrogen atom was the size of the Solar system, a single neutrino would be the size of a golfball. That's ****ing small.
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virtually mass less isn't mass less :)

and relavity says anything of non zero rest mass cannot be sped up to the speed of light, so it would violate current thinking
 
In Einstein's day nothing so small had even been conceived. The equation as a general sort of model still stands up to a decent level of scrutiny.
 
Darth Vodka said:
and relavity says anything of non zero rest mass cannot be sped up to the speed of light, so it would violate current thinking
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That's not strictly true. It's just the energy involved doing it would be prohibitive.
 
Ian Marshall said:
In Einstein's day nothing so small had even been conceived. The equation as a general sort of model still stands up to a decent level of scrutiny.
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er? is this the same Einstein who theorised photons? the zero rest-mass tiny sub-atomic particle?
 
ok...cannot practically be sped up

:P
 
Darth Vodka said:
virtually mass less isn't mass less :)

and relavity says anything of non zero rest mass cannot be sped up to the speed of light, so it would violate current thinking
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Yes, but it wouldn't require infinite energy to get there
 
Ian Marshall said:
Crikey. It's been a long and lonely road but I think I've found someone with some perspective and understanding on the issue.

We should move out to the country together, throw away our televisions and live in glorious, glorious isolation.
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You bring a blanket and I'll bring a box of green Rizlas
 
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