(March 18, 2012 at 1:30 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I figured as much when they posted their results the first time.
I kind of wished they had of waited posting their results until they had done several tests to ensure accuracy, but sadly they posted on the spot and all of the corn ball creationists and conspiracy theorists and assorted nuts jumped all over the initial findings.
30 years from now we will still be hearing about how the hadron proved that the speed of light boundary can be broken
What I really can't figure is if those CT morons (not to mention creationists) did any reading into the why c is the "speed limit" and what actually happens as an object like a neutron approaches light speed. They would have never fell into this and made themselves look really dumb. When a neutron approaches light speed (as in a collapsing star) we end up getting a neutron star due to neutron degeneracy pressure. Same thing happens when electrons get too close to light speed. The only way this is avoided is when an object is to extremely massive (for electron degeneracy, 1.44 solar masses is the minimum. For neutrons, it is in the range of 1.5-3 solar masses). Guess there could be other types of degenerate matter like quark degeneracy (never been observed), CTist brain degeneracy and fundamentalist degeneracy (both seen fairly often). As far as the last two, in large conglomerations maybe they would go supernova, it is a hope of mine
