Thursday, September 22, 2011

Weird Science Redux

Reuters is reporting via Yahoo News that scientists at CERN have determined that neutrinos can move faster than the speed of light. If true, this means Albert Einstein was wrong about a fundamental law of nature.

Einstein argued that nothing could move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, or 186,000+ miles per second. My whimsical though: maybe a neutrino is effectively "nothing" and as such is not bound by his "law."

If Einstein's basic constant is not a constant after all, then many other things we've taken for granted may be up for discussion, including time travel. Science fiction fans, take note.