"I cannae change the laws of physics, Captain!"

[denorios]

Except, maybe those laws are wrong. All of them.

How exciting is this news from Cern? I mean, if this is true, if this experiment isn't a mistake or a fluke or a miscalibration or any of the other things it could be; if it's true, then we have to rewrite the laws of physics. Our entire understanding of science could be wrong. Einstein could be

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[imaginary_iby]

THIS. I heart this whole post. So unbelievably exciting!

[huntersglenn]

I think it's so cool, and hope that it turns out to be real, and not some error with the machinery that records the time.

Most of the scientific 'laws' are merely theories that haven't been disproved - not always proved, though, either. It's definitely exciting, and it's great that they're asking other groups to step in and take a look, to make sure they're measuring things correctly.

It's not mentioned in that article, but one of the teams being asked to take a look is an American team (I think they're working out of Chicago), who thought the same thing happened with one of their tests, but it wasn't as big of a gap time-wise as what they got in Cern, so they figured it was just a fluke (it was just a few nanoseconds faster, or something like that).

And, the earth hasn't imploded yet!

[exuberantself]

This is awesome, and made even more so because the article reads like the scientists are desperate to be proven wrong. I mean, on the one hand it'd be an amazing discovery, but on the other hand, it would revolutionize their belief system and that has to be scary.

But WHOA, this is cool.