Topic: FTL - not buying it - or am I?

[sam]

FTL = Faster Than Light.  European scientists have apparently recorded neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light, something which Einstein's theories debarred.

They didn't, they had it wrong. They basically go their timing wrong: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/news.2011.575.html

[sam]

Sorry for not picking this up sooner but after my honeymoon I've been swamped with calibration software issues.

[sam]

D-Dan - I'm not entirely sure I follow you argument, maybe I'm tired though it could be I tend to find things hard to figure through conceptually without mathematics.

[sam]

Oh but:

Time itself has to remain relatively constant and calculable. Within the observable universe, Einstein's theory holds up,

Alas, this can't be be true - the essence of relativity is that time is not uniform and absolute. Sorry.

[sam]

not least being the concept of 10 dimensions

Now't wrong with that. I don't see the problem with that - what I see a problem with is the lack of testing it. I'm an observational astrophysicist - I find it hard to discuss things we have no way of measuring. Though I guess my GMRT observations did have some implications for cosmology I tend to avoid it.... mostly cause there is some hard thinking to be done and then I get confused about it all again. Maybe I should watch the tv show too.

[sam]

Conversely, a neutrino has such a tiny mass that perhaps it's small enough to break through

Ah but at those speeds that little mass isn't so little... well relatively anyway.

[sam]

I'm getting a headache now.

LOL - you aren't the only one