Sci/Tech Speed-of-light experiment 'was wrong after all'.

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The claim comes from an independent team of researchers working at the Gran Sasso facility in Italy – the same laboratory as the group who shocked the world with their physics-defying announcement in September.

That experiment, known as OPERA, seemed to show that tiny particles known as neutrinos fired from the CERN research centre in Switzerland had arrived at Gran Sasso a fraction of a second faster than light would have done.

Because Einstein's theory of special relativity states that nothing can travel faster than light, the results run contrary to an assumption on which much of modern physics is based.

Proof that the OPERA team was correct would fundamentally alter our understanding the universe and raise the alarming possibility of time travel.

 
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Surely if we could time-travel, we'd know by now since people would already be coming back?
 

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I just got a reply from God, it read:
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Rather than measuring the time it took the neutrinos to travel from CERN to Gran Sasso the second experiment, known as ICARUS, monitored how much energy they had when they arrived.
Physicists believe that travelling even slightly faster than light would cause the particles to lose most of their energy in the process.
But the ICARUS team's calculations, published online last weekend, seemed to show they arrived with exactly the amount of energy particles moving at light speed should have had – and no more.

Seemed and Believe aren't very definite words, in my opinion this isn't proof that its wrong, just data in the opposite direction.
 

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agree, god coded extremely well the world, it has no bugs. :p TROLOLOL
 

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This probably is proof that it's wrong because it's more likely that there was some incorrect data as opposed to the theory of relativity being wrong.
 

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Im pretty sure time travel between complex organisms would not work as all the atoms would be placed in different locations creating just a big pile of the particles that make the organism.
 

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A: Physicists believe nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
B. Physicists believe something traveling faster than the speed of light would lose a lot of energy.

an experiment supposedly disproved A, therefore competing physicists used B to show they were wrong about A. But if A is wrong, why are we assuming B is right? Afterall, if FTL is possible; then most of the theories that go against it must be invalid.
 

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If a particle does travel faster than light, what exactly makes it require to lose so much more energy?
 
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