FTL Drives Here We Come?

[fabrisse]

According to The Associated Press, neutrinos may have been clocked going over the ultimate speed limit.

The researchers are asking for reviews of their experiment data before making a claim, but if this is true, the implications are huge.

Comments

[murf1307]

I'm not gonna freak out I'm not gonna freak out I'm not gonna freak out I'm not gonna --

FUCK THAT. I'M FREAKING OUT.

(For those who don't know me, this is important because of Star Trek: First Contact and the fact humanity achieves warp speed on April 4th, 2063, and I'll be 69, and if it goes the way it's supposed to (minus the Borg and WWIII, of course), Zephram Cochran is only a tad bit younger than me (he looks mid sixties/late fifties in the movie).

Somebody, put on "Magic Carpet Ride"!!!

[fabrisse]

I'll be 101 (going on 102), but I can't wait to meet the Vulcans. *G*

[murf1307]

Me too. Seriously, I get so freaking excited about it, but then I wonder if the the already present differences between our timeline and the Trek timelines will throw everything off. Like, we didn't have the Eugenics Wars in the nineties, and we don't appear to be on our way toward that rather dystopian picture First Contact painted...

[angelus7988]

I wouldn't be too confident about the dystopian future bit. It'll be interesting if that is approximately when humans develop some form of FTL drive.

[serious_mccoy]

ohgodohgod this has the potential to be so awesome

[fabrisse]

There is much squee in this.

[stargate_sg1sg1]

Lol this is funny. It wont hold.

[murf1307]

Eh, but we FTL nerds can dream, can we not?

[stargate_sg1sg1]

Wormhole or Warp are the only ones that are at all possible if I am not mistaken. But I agree FTL would be cool.

[fabrisse]

Maybe not, but the possibilities...

[rainbow_fish]

OMG!

Shit just got real.gif!

[fabrisse]

Yeah.

[essentialsaltes]

Surely supernova observations rule this out? Neutrinos from 1987A were observed about three hours before the light signal, but that's because the neutrinos come straight from the core, while the light has to work its way out.

But even if they were simultaneous and the neutrinos travelled faster than light, 3 hours out of a 168,000 year trip is a much tinier difference than what was measured here (60 ns difference over a 2.4 ms course)

[mephisto5]

But just because those neutrinos weren't faster than light, doesn't mean that others can't be? Idk, haven't done physics since 1st year of uni.