science! and an idiot on facebook.
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Earlier today I read a news article about a bunch of CERN scientists who, in the course of their experiments, discovered that the results showed neutrinos moving faster than light. Einstein's theory of relativity posits that nothing can move faster than light. The CERN scientists put their findings out into the community and asked for other scientists to independently confirm/refute their findings. Only the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and Chicago's Fermilab actually have the facilities to test this. Some particle physicists are scoffing and insisting that it can only be measurement error or instrument error or some kind of mistake/misreading. After all, it's very difficult to detect and measure neutrinos in the first place -- they are very small and very non-interactive; after all billions of them go through our bodies daily and we don't even notice!
So I'm kind of looking forward to seeing if this can really be true, if this is going to further our knowledge of the cosmos and particle physics and so forth. Someone hypothesized that this happened due to the neutrinos "taking a shortcut through a different dimension" which could really be interesting if it's true, but god knows how that could be measured. And nearly all physicists are agreeing that even if the neutrinos WERE correctly recorded and therefore ARE generally capable of moving faster than light, it does not necessarily mean we are wrong about everything, that we now have to throw out Einstein's theory as being totally incorrect -- because Einstein's theory actually DOES work in explaining relativity and the cosmos. It's been proven over and over and over again. Just because one part of it was deemed to not be correct, it doesn't necessarily make Einstein wrong.
And all of that is being said because some dipshit on my facebook friends list -- who may/may not be in high school but I'm not bothering to find out right now, as I only friended her because of a game we mutually play -- posted an MSNBC (MSNBC?!) link discussing the findings and her comment? EINSTEIN WAS WROOONNNGGGG!!!
I just want to rant all over her facebook page. I doubt she knows a fucking thing about particle physics, theoretical physics, or how the LHC even works to produce these findings/experiments. d'oh. But, as I said, we don't know each other except through that stupid facebook game, so instead of ranting on the wall of somebody I don't even properly know about her ignorance, I'mma just going to post it here. After all, you people are apparently far more intelligent than she is. XD
Earlier today I read a news article about a bunch of CERN scientists who, in the course of their experiments, discovered that the results showed neutrinos moving faster than light. Einstein's theory of relativity posits that nothing can move faster than light. The CERN scientists put their findings out into the community and asked for other scientists to independently confirm/refute their findings. Only the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and Chicago's Fermilab actually have the facilities to test this. Some particle physicists are scoffing and insisting that it can only be measurement error or instrument error or some kind of mistake/misreading. After all, it's very difficult to detect and measure neutrinos in the first place -- they are very small and very non-interactive; after all billions of them go through our bodies daily and we don't even notice!
So I'm kind of looking forward to seeing if this can really be true, if this is going to further our knowledge of the cosmos and particle physics and so forth. Someone hypothesized that this happened due to the neutrinos "taking a shortcut through a different dimension" which could really be interesting if it's true, but god knows how that could be measured. And nearly all physicists are agreeing that even if the neutrinos WERE correctly recorded and therefore ARE generally capable of moving faster than light, it does not necessarily mean we are wrong about everything, that we now have to throw out Einstein's theory as being totally incorrect -- because Einstein's theory actually DOES work in explaining relativity and the cosmos. It's been proven over and over and over again. Just because one part of it was deemed to not be correct, it doesn't necessarily make Einstein wrong.
And all of that is being said because some dipshit on my facebook friends list -- who may/may not be in high school but I'm not bothering to find out right now, as I only friended her because of a game we mutually play -- posted an MSNBC (MSNBC?!) link discussing the findings and her comment? EINSTEIN WAS WROOONNNGGGG!!!
I just want to rant all over her facebook page. I doubt she knows a fucking thing about particle physics, theoretical physics, or how the LHC even works to produce these findings/experiments. d'oh. But, as I said, we don't know each other except through that stupid facebook game, so instead of ranting on the wall of somebody I don't even properly know about her ignorance, I'mma just going to post it here. After all, you people are apparently far more intelligent than she is. XD