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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retuom" data-source="post: 11007899" data-attributes="member: 98545">E=mc2 Is Wrong! - Physics To Be Re-Written After CERN Breaks Speed Of Light   [YOUTUBE]PDzR0aG3eGQ[/YOUTUBE]Amazement As Particles 'Beat Light Speed'Scientists from all over the world are examining the results of an  experiment that seems to disprove one of the cornerstones of modern  physics.         Experts at the <a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/public/" target="_blank">European Organisation for Nuclear Research</a> (Cern) in Switzerland believe they have clocked particles called neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light.  But they cannot quite believe it themselves, they say, because according to <a href="http://indepth.news.sky.com/InDepth/topic/Albert%20Einstein" target="_blank">Einstein's</a> famous 1905 equation, E=mc2, it is simply impossible.  "The feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said James Gillies, a spokesman for Cern.  According to Einstein, the speed of light, 186,282 miles per second  (299,792km per second) is a "cosmic constant" and nothing in the  universe can travel faster, because physical objects have a mass,  whereas light does not.  Cern says a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near  Geneva to a lab 454 miles (730km) away in Italy arrived in a time that  meant it had covered the distance 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed  of light.                 It's a shock. It's going to cause us problems, no doubt about that - if it's true.              Fermilab head theoretician Stephen Parke                                                    The claim has been met with a range of responses from scientists,  with some expressing amazement while others dismissed it as a mistake.  "The feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said James Gillies, a spokesman for Cern.  He said the readings have so astounded researchers that they are  asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming  an actual discovery.  "They are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they  have done and really scrutinise it in great detail," he said.  Dr David Whitehouse, a space scientist and author, said that if the  experiment is proved to be true then it would be a revelation on a par  with Einstein's own theories.                    What Is Albert Einstein's Theory?                                            <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">:: The speed of light is described by the scientists at CERN as "nature's cosmic speed limit". :: Albert Einstein's 1905 Theory of Special Relativity says  that the speed of light is a constant - and that nothing in the universe  can travel faster. :: But if the CERN experiment was correct then scientists  measured the neutrinos as travelling 60 billionths of a second quicker  than light would have travelled the same distance</li> </ul>                                                                                <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Sep/Week4/16075443.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>                                  "It is an earthquake, a revolution in physics," he said.  "As soon as you are arrogant enough to think you understand the universe, the universe comes along and shows you are not right."  Dr Whitehouse said the findings technically meant that time travel might be possible.  "Everything is now open - because time, speed and the speed of light are all linked."  However, one physicist based in Melbourne, Australia, concluded that the claim was simply the result of an error.  Dr John P Costella said the group at Cern had made an "embarrassing  gaffe" by miscalculating the experiment's statistical uncertainty.          <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lankawebnet/boxsubscribe" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Sep/Week2/15096901.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     CERN scientists want other experts to verify their findings     "One must conclude that (the team) has simply made a mistake, albeit a  highly embarrassing one which has gathered international media  coverage," he said.  University of Maryland physics department chairman Drew Baden called  it "a flying carpet", something that was too fantastic to be believable.  Scientists at the competing <a href="http://www.fnal.gov/" target="_blank">Fermilab</a> in Chicago have promised to try to replicate the results.  "It is a shock," said Fermilab head theoretician Stephen Parke, who was not part of the research in Geneva.  "It is going to cause us problems, no doubt about that - if it is true."  The Chicago team had similar faster-than-light results in 2007, but  those came with a giant margin of error that undercut its scientific  significance.   <a href="http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16075434" target="_blank">http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16075434</a></blockquote>

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