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Particles Found To Move Faster than Light.

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darsh.
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Just found this. Enjoy!

Sep 22 2011 5:08PM
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NickSki.
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Impossible.
Sep 22 2011 5:12PM
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Where-am-I
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does this mean we can divide zero now too?
Sep 22 2011 5:15PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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shit.

just.

got.

real.
Sep 22 2011 5:15PM
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iggs
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time travel...        JUST GOT POSSIBLE!

Sep 22 2011 5:16PM
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darsh.
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Oh Fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck..
Sep 22 2011 5:22PM
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NickSki.
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No.
Sep 22 2011 5:42PM
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smallmtskier
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wut.
Sep 22 2011 5:43PM
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J.M
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^
Sep 22 2011 5:48PM
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Zimmerman
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this is big.
Sep 22 2011 5:53PM
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Mr.Turtle
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i don't think so because the speed of light is still constant, we just have proof that it isn' the fasted speed
Sep 22 2011 6:04PM
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dresserski
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psst i wont believe in that till its on wikipedia
Sep 22 2011 6:09PM
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PON3
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U mad Einstein???
Sep 22 2011 6:14PM
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darsh.
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Yes in the article it says, "If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster. That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works."

Sep 22 2011 6:14PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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beat you by 2 hours lol https://newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/644773/ looks like you had the better title though.
Sep 22 2011 6:14PM
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gombo8
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/26/12-year-old-genius-expands-einsteins-theory-of-relativity/

i already knew einstein was full of shit because a fuckign 12 year old is a genius...make sense?
Sep 22 2011 6:24PM
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midwestpowhunter
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Everything is impossible until it's possible.
Sep 22 2011 6:26PM
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Mister.F
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sooo they've burned a shit ton of $$$ to do this, now wut
Sep 22 2011 6:34PM
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Slippery_Gypsy
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BULLSHIT!! But seriously when something goes the speed of light time slows down to a stop, so as soon as you go faster then light you basically time travel. Or so science has thought since now. If this is true it changes everything.
Sep 22 2011 6:39PM
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wasatch_rat
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your name is a problem.
Sep 22 2011 6:39PM
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Trojan~Man
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holllyy fuckkk! mind= blown!!
Sep 22 2011 6:42PM
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Panchuk
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Sep 22 2011 6:42PM
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theabortionator
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I agree
Sep 22 2011 6:51PM
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Gameboy
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yeah but e=mc2 isn't the only thing that came out from that theory. that equation is still valid IMO since c (the speed of light) doesn't change even though something is moving faster. I think they're talking about ah man I don'T know how to explain it though, I'll try my best haha. If you're going at 0,99999c and you're traveling side by side with something that travels at c, you'll see that thing going as fast as someone who is standing still. You'll see it go at the speed of light even if you're almost traveling at that speed. I don't know if it makes sense to you. So yeah, if something is going faster than the speed of light, they have to explain what would happen in a similar situation.

It's what I think but I can be completely wrong too.
Sep 22 2011 7:01PM
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NickSki.
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special relativity =/= only the equation e=mc^2
Sep 22 2011 7:03PM
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DrZoidberg
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E=mc^2 still works, none of that changed. It was thought that light speed could not be exceeded, but perhaps it can.
Sep 22 2011 7:08PM
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Jonny7
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every physics class should be cancelled now
Sep 22 2011 7:13PM
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BMB
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Particle accelerators for the win
Sep 22 2011 7:20PM
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J.M
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do you think while you type?
Sep 22 2011 7:21PM
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TOK
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"Much science-fiction literature is based on the idea that, if the light-speed barrier can be overcome, time travel might theoretically become possible."

oh shittttt.
Sep 22 2011 7:23PM
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Mister.F
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ok
Sep 22 2011 7:26PM
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HKizzle
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http://5493-[IMG]planetmc.voxcdn.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1127/impo3_145201.jpg[/IMG]
Sep 22 2011 7:27PM
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Mister.F
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i agree but I just think the money could be better spent, just my opinion
Sep 22 2011 7:28PM
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HKizzle
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Fail.

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Sep 22 2011 7:29PM
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DERS.
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holy shiiiiiiiiit. what does this meaaaaan
Sep 22 2011 7:36PM
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Bloom.
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I think the human circumstance is about to get really weird within the next couple of years. We are going to discover things that are going to alter our perception of what it means to be alive and what it means to be dead and what exactly we are in the cosmos. Pretty cool. History is just a transitional period from the time we left the forest until we actually discover our circumstance. History is just a phase we go through in order to discover the unknown.
Sep 22 2011 8:08PM
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Bloom.
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And i think we are getting pretty close to the point of a huge paradigm shift in how we all see life. I think this is a secret embedded into the biological world. Those who had tight connections with nature  could actually map out history and see what is coming and I think thats how so many different cultures all arrived at the same date in 2012. The rate of our discovries of the world is exponential. Each year we learn more and more and at a ever increasing rate. I am excited to see what the next couple of years will bring as far as scientific and biological advancement, as well as technological advancements.
Sep 22 2011 8:15PM
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darsh.
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Mind=Blown. That is one of the greatest replies I have possibly ever read. +k
Sep 22 2011 9:33PM
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1337
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I love the scientific achievements man has succeeded in in the past 100 years.
Sep 22 2011 9:35PM
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Zimmerman
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^that was awesome dude i totally see that. this shit's interested me since i was little.
Sep 22 2011 9:37PM
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tuna.
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i'll believe it when i see it.
Sep 22 2011 9:40PM
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maxter-paxter
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Sep 22 2011 9:42PM
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wasatch_rat
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.......? yea your not gonna see anything that small, especially if its going faster than the speed of light. u mean the data? what exactly are you requesting to see that the article didn't illuminate?
Sep 22 2011 9:52PM
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egg.
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and because of that were all going to die on 2012
Sep 22 2011 9:53PM
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Chompo.
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holy shit i lost so hard
Sep 22 2011 10:10PM
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Supergyro
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Game. Over.
Sep 22 2011 10:16PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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well i don't know where my thread is so i'll just leave this here
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Sep 22 2011 10:37PM
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gotti
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False, tachyons are not recognized by the scientific field as being faster than the speed of light. Tachyons are understood as signifying an instability of the system and dismissed through tachyon condensation, rather than being treated as real faster-than-light particles, and such instabilities are described by tachyonic fields. Tachyonic fields have appeared theoretically in a variety of contexts, such as the bosonic string theory. According to the contemporary and widely accepted understanding of the concept of a particle, tachyon particles are too unstable to be treated as existent.[4] According to that theory, faster than light information transmission and causality violation with tachyons are impossible.
Sep 22 2011 11:11PM
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Mr.Turtle
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I'm with Happy on this one, tachyons have been known for years. not that this isn't a significant discovery, it is nice to have proof of things moving faster than m
Sep 22 2011 11:18PM
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brosif
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Already was possible. If you can travel at relativistic speeds you can age slower than someone on the earth for example. However because time changes, distances will change.

The discovery will definitely mess up time dilation because with a speed greater than the speed of light you will end up with an imaginary number... confusing. See below:

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v = velocity c = speed of light t = proper time t' = calculated time.

I wonder who's gonna be the one to rewrite relativity after this discovery though... crazy stuff
Sep 22 2011 11:24PM
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