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watsonpj

posted on 28/9/11 at 04:52 PM Reply With Quote
Calling all experts

Following on from my other topic about the experts on here. As the subject of why neutrinos travel faster than light hasn't been posted suprises me but I guess if you work in an underground bunker there is no point building a car. So my question is why/how can they.

My theory is they are Neutrino identical twins with well synconised watches just having a laugh at our expense but I am open to any other suggestions.


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coozer

posted on 28/9/11 at 05:10 PM Reply With Quote
I knew all about it, been watching the Doctor do it in the Tardis for years!





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iank

posted on 28/9/11 at 05:48 PM Reply With Quote
I believe one of the first theories off the block (and top of someone's head) is that they are taking a short cut through another dimension so aren't strictly violating the speed of light. Alternatively they'll find half a stale BLT in the detector.





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David Jenkins

posted on 28/9/11 at 05:56 PM Reply With Quote
In all fairness to the researchers, they're saying to the scientific world "We're sure these results are wrong, but we can't see where - can anyone else spot the mistake?"

Actually quite a neat way of claiming the discovery before anyone else, in case their results are correct!






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Confused but excited.

posted on 28/9/11 at 05:59 PM Reply With Quote
IMHO only, I think that because Neutrinos have zero mass they are not affected by Gravity. Photons on the other hand are reputed to have mass and are therefore affected by gravity. It is therefore my postulation that in fact Neutrinos travel at the speed of light, but light as we measure it, has been slowed slightly by gravitational effects and the very clever people at CERN are just too clever to spot the obvious.
There again, my handle 'Confused . . . etc' isn't there for nothing.
Another thing that confuses me is; If, as according to Einstein, a body's mass tends towards infinity as it's velocity approaches 'c', then why does this not happen with photons? Surely if he was correct, photons would all be black holes.
You can clearly see why I am not a physisist.
Or am I just relatively confused.



[Edited on 28/9/11 by Confused but excited.]





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Ninehigh

posted on 28/9/11 at 06:53 PM Reply With Quote
It might be something to do with the fabric of space-time, and are thus moving between points of great distance yet travel at sub-light speeds.

There was an episode of "sci-fi science" where they explained that warping this fabric could mean faster than light travel without all the problems of getting to that speed






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Peteff

posted on 28/9/11 at 06:53 PM Reply With Quote
It's spelt physicist, you are confused





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Benzine

posted on 28/9/11 at 07:23 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
It might be something to do with the fabric of space-time, and are thus moving between points of great distance yet travel at sub-light speeds.

There was an episode of "sci-fi science" where they explained that warping this fabric could mean faster than light travel without all the problems of getting to that speed


Best avatar in this thread Did you get that info from the Junior Colour Encyclopedia of Space?

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PaulBuz

posted on 29/9/11 at 11:29 AM Reply With Quote
Faster than light information transfer has been known for many years now. It's called quantum entanglement.
my guess is that something may be working on the quantum level
.....OR, they just measured it wrong





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chrsgrain

posted on 1/10/11 at 03:11 AM Reply With Quote
We don't allow faster than light neutrinos in here" said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.





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Ninehigh

posted on 1/10/11 at 03:18 AM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Benzine
quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
It might be something to do with the fabric of space-time, and are thus moving between points of great distance yet travel at sub-light speeds.

There was an episode of "sci-fi science" where they explained that warping this fabric could mean faster than light travel without all the problems of getting to that speed


Best avatar in this thread Did you get that info from the Junior Colour Encyclopedia of Space?


Heh, experience! Even with my massive IQ travelling at the speed of light is still brown trousers time






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designer

posted on 1/10/11 at 08:00 AM Reply With Quote
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neutrinos travel faster than light



Apparently, this hasn't been proved yet!!

All the boffins are still arguing about it.

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PaulBuz

posted on 1/10/11 at 08:12 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by chrsgrain
We don't allow faster than light neutrinos in here" said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.



worthy of Sheldon Cooper,that one.





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