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Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
(September 28, 2011 at 5:00 pm)Rhythm Wrote: So no updates on this yet?

No updates but plenty of explanations: At the New Scientist, they had an article on how this might prove extra dimensions:

Quote:Instead, the result could be the first evidence for a reality built out of extra dimensions. Future historians of science may regard it not as the moment we abandoned Einstein and broke physics, but rather as the point at which our view of space vastly expanded, from three dimensions to four, or more.
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The trick is to send neutrinos on a shortcut through a fourth, thus-far-unobserved dimension of space, reducing the distance they have to travel. Then the neutrinos wouldn't have to outstrip light to reach their destination in the observed time.

In such a universe, the particles and forces we are familiar with are anchored to a four-dimensional membrane, or "brane", with three dimensions of space and one of time. Crucially, the brane floats in a higher dimensional space-time called the bulk, which we are normally completely oblivious to.

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...?full=true



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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern - by little_monkey - September 29, 2011 at 9:20 am

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