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  • What if Einstein was right to a certain extent, but there was more to it?

  • I take a little bit of what Kaku say with a grain of salt. A lot of physicists like Lawrence Krauss (whom I consider one of the smartest in the world) believe string theory is bogus. Kaku seems to be a good "explain-really-hard-concepts-­to-dumb-people" kind of guy but not sure his theorys are sound.

  • Thumbs up if you started worrying that your coffee will turn to stone in your mug, half way through this video...

    Thanks for the brain meltdown, Dr Kaku...

  • I am really gonna expect this guy to admit relativity is WRONG?? I don't think so...

  • Actually time does not truly exist.

  • I hate physics...but this guy makes is so much more interesting

  • Aww man, it would be awesome if he was wrong

  • Imagine him bald... TA-DA Asain Lex Luther from superman!

  • So the moral of this story boys and girls...DON'T FUCK WITH EINSTEIN!

  • Guys like Michio Kaku and Neil Degrasse Tyson should be the ones earning multi-million dollar salaries and baggin all the hot chicks, not these prima donas who play professional sports nowadays

  • Well.... Looks like Einstein was right. But seriously, did we ever really doubt him?

  • Then Einstein would not be right..

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  • It was a loose cable. Came out in the news

  • PRO NWO ASSIAN FAGG

  • Why would you recalibrate Nuclear weapons ?

  • Neutrino faster then a light.During the experiment. BUT when 10,000 light year.. both hit the earth same time. The experiment is fail. The light can travel faster depend on the what type of matter(Inside the space). E=mc2 is still in good position. The experiment 450miles is make the light slow due to the medium(space matter) The medium do not effect the neutron. The light can travel faster then any type of atom depend on the medium when it travel along in it.

  • Holy shit. 

  • He misspoke somewhat when characterizing the distance to Supernova 1987a. Wikipedia states that SN1987a occurred in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. It occurred approximately 168,000 light-years,

    By saying tens of thousands of light-years it gives the impression its distance is on the order of 10^4 light-years when in reality it is on the order of 10^5 light-years. Although not terribly reliant, it seemed to need clarification.

  • use to have respect for this guy, and his opinions, i no longer do. if relativity was proven to be incorrect physicist know that its over for them so obviously they would be quick to discredit any claim that opposed their precious laws cause even thought the pursuit of physicist and scientist is the hunt for truth there are certain truths they do not want uncovered until the time is right for them this guy just didnt want to be out of a job with a degree in something that was 100% incorrect

  • @ArtworkbyMosier over for them what?? the ppl i am in touch with were super excited by this, yes im talking bout physicists. either u r a religious nut or controversy theorist. get a life.

  • @chinamanspeakenlis you dont have the IQ or knowledge of its latterial implications to the science behind it, or you would not have ask a question like "what?" so therefore you lack the level of intelligence required to understand my statement, as you confused it with religion, or me being some kind of controversy theorist LOL. read the books get the education and you will understand my statement more clearer, but i cannot make you understand 12 grade math if you are still in kindergarten

  • Science is still in it's infancy. Here is a blow to it's infantile sense of omnipotence. Since it is not God, it has no buisness trashing the planet in the quest for glory. More humility would do us all a world of good.

  • @lessermystery wtf r u blabbering???

  • @chinamanspeakenlis Truth hurts so you strike back in anger, like the slave to your limbic system that youa are. LOL. Notice the primitive words and primitive emotions commicated in your hostile response. Hssssss!

  • When man admits he is the error, and that he has the ability to be wrong, is when everything starts to come together and greater heights can be reached.

  • @TheKirbyfury that's science my friend. self correcting. that's why we have reached such heights in such short time.

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  • Of course Einstein could be wrong. It is not as if all the physicists decided to say "oh that can't be right because it goes against Einstein!" NO! They carefully looked at the experiment which contradicts years of scientific data and began to hypothesize as to why this might be. Please don't begin to think physicists are biased.

  • Oh FFS, the results were not WRONG. They were POSSIBLY wrong due to two POSSIBLE sources of error: The GPS calibration and the fiber optic cable. They are going to fix these two sources of error and retest in MAY. We will know in MAY whether or not they were wrong. Until then, anything said is merely conjecture.

  • @Lawyer666 Lol Your name fits you because you act like a lawyer. Idk about the 666 tho. I mean you don't seem very evil. Then again, neither do I XD

  • @Lawyer666 it's gonna take them 4 months to fix a cable?

  • @Lawyer666 well, ok, three and a half.

  • Esinstein himself would despise the dogma that has built up around his name. It's as if it is noteven possible he was wrong. He was only a human, why couldn't he be wrong? Science is getting more and more fascist every day.

  • @dragmio That awkward momento when Einstein was not wrong.

  • Holy Sh** thats scary

  • He said Heart Attack, I heard Hard On.

  • There was a loose atomic cable in CERNS experiment. There results where wrong. Thumbs me up so people can see! (It wont let me link the article, but u can still google it)

  • @Singetally it said a loose cable MAY be behind the result, not that it was.

  • @LuisReefTank There is a more recent one I read and they are sure that the atomic cable was the problem...they made it official actually...

  • @LuisReefTank Those people at CERN are as stupid as the physicists in the early 1900's who released to the world that they created Nuclear Fusion in there lab before checking if something went wrong OR comparing the results with others. Then they looked like fools to the public. That is exactly what CERN did....they get all cocky and tell these results to the media before checking there equipment or other scientists. They must have forgotten the basic law of communicating scientific results.

  • @Singetally It was a fiber optic cable, and they haven't confirmed if that was at fault or not.

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  • for us to go faster than the speed of light can unorder every relative interaction because life itself isn't designed to go faster than the speed of light

    if jesus were to come 2012 then he would possess power faster than the speed of light

  • einstin never said that light is the fastest traveling thing. he indicated that its the fastest thing known to man.

  • Neutrinos accelerated from CERN were directionally "fired" over a short distance, as opposed to the wild shock wave that occurred with the supernova in question. So, in a controlled environment, we were able to accelerate a neutrino faster than light, and faster than what appears to naturally occur. So what if Einstein's theories aren't all correct? Isn't that serendipity for physicists? I mean, it's obvious to me that they're just humans at the end of the day- the best of us are wrong at times!

  • Every physical model is based on a set of axioms from which equations are derived to quantify and predict natural phenomena. A model is only robust so long as the assumptions hold true. Einstein's treatment of time as a 4th spatial dimension works incredibly well, but it is possible that future experiments may reveal situations where the relativistic models fall short, and new insight into the nature of time and space is needed.

  • einstein was wrong?!?!? MY TURN

  • They weren't trying to defeat relativity. It just happened to happen. Even though I think they may have conceded that it was an error, relativity is in danger of becoming a sacred cow in physics.

  • I don't agree. I have been reading Scientific American in the late 70s and there were many published reports of super-luminal galaxies. Now these are all tens to hundreds of light-years away. Some were moving apart at 10X c and there was concurrence amongst the astronomers. Now are physicists trying to ignore other scientists who said Einstein (the physicist's demi-god) was wrong ?. It seems so.

  • So... my GPS no longer works?!?

  • @kurdtpage i didn't say anything like that.

    I just said that not only i like and play games but i also make some.

    Which is funny because you think people like that are idiots

  • @LethalAxis My comment wasnt directed at you, my comment was directed at Mr Kaku lol. And I'm a gamer like you, so I dont think you're an idiot.

  • I just love this guy

  • that's the way they do physics now.. they light fireworks and see what happen. didn't you ever think that someone had already figured out a long time ago ??? Oh nooo, we are the toppermost of the poppermost.

  • This dude is a theoretical physicist only in the sense that theoretically, he's a physicist.

    Carl Sagan, he ain't.

  • EPIC tie.

  • Obviously they were using Bizarro neutrinos that move faster as the material they travel through gets more dense. They inhabit the other side of the speed of light, and the mystery is how they wound up at CERN to begin with.

  • This is why I love science, nothing is set in stone. Everything can be challenge as new evidence comes up.

  • we could possibly go to the past

  • *Throws out schematics of time machine constructed of plywood and beer cans*

    ..it was ecofriendly too ;-;

  • @pman123 Haha cute ^o^!

  • Obviously CERN was wrong

    The media just wanted a good story

  • Actually if GPS is a relativistic device and relativity is correct, the distance should be measured correctly and thus relativity is incorrect due to the neutrino being faster than the speed of light (unless a different systematic error occured, which seems highly likely).f

  • Thanks Michio Kaku!

  • hey! hey! Einstein is probably not wrong , and Opera had made an error , because of some technical problems .

  • I had to think extra hard while listening to his explanations. But to him its like saying the ABC's..

  • LATEST NEWS: THEY REALLY DID GOOFED!

  • oh darn! i forget to put my brain in my head this morning....!

  • arstechnica (dot) com/science/news/2012/02/faste­r-than-light-neutrino-result-a­pparently-a-mistake-due-to-loo­se-cable (dot) ars

    they just realized that their calibrations were off :p

  • wait, if they shot them through a mountain, then maybe one side of the mountain was more dense and thus caused one of the particles to slow down relative to the other?

  • @MikeFromSF a neutrino isnt really a particle. it can go through lead for 2 years without stopping

  • @shytake That doesn't mean it isn't a particle, it simply means that it doesn't hardly react with anything. It does not have to interact with other matter and particles in the universe to be a particle, and in fact it does at times interact, which means that your bases for it not being a particle "that it can go through lead for 2 years without stopping, thus indicating a lack of reactions" deafeats itself, beacuse the neutrino will eventually be stopped by interacting.

  • Oh man, Dr. Kaku did it again!

  • It sounds like the opposite is possible as well; given the indoor out door reasoning?

  • /watch?v=Q7McGUXFgJM

    Einstien is wrong, this proves it.

  • Is it not possible that suggesting that travelling faster than the speed of light will allow you to go back in time is just another flaw in physics?

    If time travel was possible, what about all the possible paradoxes that it could cause?

    Would it mean that if you went back in time to try and prevent world war 2, you could actually end up being the person who kick starts it in the first place????

    Time travel would have to create a series of impossible scenarios.

  • @TranceBeforeWeDie what if time travel was actually simply trans dimensional travel i would say that sort of travel may be possible if we applied holograph theory of black-holes ? maybe? who knows eh? ;)

  • @TranceBeforeWeDie maybe the past has been altered several times but we aren't able to tell...

  • @brenoakiy

    (:

    I've often thought about this myself. Things could be changing around us all the time and we wouldn't even know it, because the history behind the change would also be altered.

  • @TranceBeforeWeDie exactly

    you could go on and come up with crazy conspiracy theories about some historical events!

    btw, are you interested in animes?

    there's this one called Steins;Gate which involves some of these time travel concepts...

  • Maybe Einstein where wrong too he is people you know! people make mistakes! and this what we know is build on about 200 year knowledge and study but in future all these technology's and theory's will be caveman delusions!

  • @Polinenko Some discoveries are forever. The periodic table, newton’s laws, e=mc^2… 1000 years from now students will still be learning these in school. That’s what makes them so cool.

  • @James01100011 can you truly be certain of that? Is it not possible for every experiment to have had systematic flaws which thus caused the experiment to supply false data? 1000 years from now, we might very well have found this to be the case and our view of the universe could be radically different, It is of course even possible that our very logic is flawed currently and that until it changes, we simply won't have any way to tell whether or not we were correct.

  • @RAYNE0912 I can’t be certain of anything but I can say with a high degree that in 1000 years we will still consider the world to be round. Something are just fundamental. Just as relativity rewrote a lot of Newtonian physics, Newton is still important. Hopefully in 1000 years they will have pealed back a few more layers of reality but that doesn’t necessarily mean past views have to be wrong, just incomplete.

  • Einstein approves this

  • Michio Kaku WINS!

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  • I just looked up that neutrino/supernova thing and they determined a cause for the earliy arrival of the neutrinos (they were emitted first)... doesn't that make that example irrelevant?

  • @SalvadorBrumov You’re talking about a few hour difference between neutrinos and light with SN1987A being 168,000 light-years away. CERN was claiming like a 7km/s difference between neutrinos and light. At 168,000 light-years, 7km/s difference would have been ‘way’ more than a few hours.

  • @Keith no I believe he states if Einstein is wrong time travel is possible =o

  • If Einstein is wrong, does that mean time travel is impossible?

  • i love listening to smart people

    thats why i sold my tv 2 years ago

  • @LethalAxis And you switch to the internet...OUCHHHHHHHHHHH :)

  • @LethalAxis good to know you arent a gamer

    

  • @BassGenocide heh...

    im a game developer...

  • @LethalAxis So...you make games...but don't play them at home? and/or play on a computer only?

  • @LethalAxis DAMN RIGHT!!!!

  • @LethalAxis thats why i turned my 42'' into a computer monitor

  • @panda0100 i tried that using my sony bravia but it wouldn't work lol

  • @LethalAxis And YouTube is smarter?

  • @ArtillicusII youtube has exeptions but tv doesnt

  • So wat was it that traveled faster than light

  • @Dylanmckay71 A neutrino stream fired from one lab to another in europe that was a distance of 454 miles according to GPS. The neutrino stream beat the light beam by 60 feet even though fired at the same time. They think a systematic error explains this, although they still dont know why the light beam arrived after if both were on the way to the same target. Its a fascinating result, but as far as I know science hasnt been able to replicate it, making an error far more likely explanation.

  • Well I'm no physicist but I believe everything is moving at the speed of light talking the speed of an atom to the rotation of the earth to rotation of our galaxy and so on

    Food for thought

  • 16 meters, I suppose if the GPS can make a mistake so big when I'm driving... I risk my Life every day, Regards

  • 16 mette

  • Awww... I was all excited when it was sounding like the whole "nothing is faster than light" thing was proven wrong, but then he countered it, and now I'm disappointed. :(

  • Well maybe the assumption that Einstein was 100% wrong is well, 100% wrong. Could it be possible that Einstein's theory was indeed correct but incorrect at the same time? Could there be others means of discovering what Einstein had? Agh so much questioning!

  • what if the neutrinos go at ligth speed, so the time go slow, so they look to us like they go faster than the ligth....

  • I don't really like that argument he uses at the end of this video. He said the same thing at some conference too. If they used relativity to disprove itself that means there is a problem with relativity. I guess it can't be completely wrong... but it can't be completely right... Um...

    I'm sorry, I am being distracted by breasts.

  • well... how come to get away from a black hole you have to go faster than light, and there are cases of stars getting away from them...

  • Well... relativity maybe is relative, you just have to have the right conditions for it to be true.

    It's very unlikely that every formulas we know have all the variables necessary to be true all the time. I think that Einstein knew that when at the end of life he didn't publish all of his work, that was probably in contraction from his early ones. But physics is just so complex that there will a be point where something new will contradict of an "old" one. At least he made some breakthroughs

  • your obsession with Einstein has blinded you from noticing that he is wrong. first of all the Einstein is wrong for assuming light was the speed limit when the universe it self is speeding faster. Now his theory has been broken by the speed of the neutrinos and you cant admit it. if there is an error in the GPS system miscalculating the speed of the neutrinos, then if the experiment is repeated using a beam instead of neutrinos, then the gps should go wrong & the beam will be 6km longer.

  • @cenmoopie

    You make it sound so dramatic. Physicists have to completely understand how something is working in order for it to be accepted. Please, present YOUR research on the matter.

  • @cenmoopie the universe isn't expanding faster then the speed of light, its accelerating at the speed of light (or was)

  • Maybe that's what deja vu is? Somebody manipulating our world constantly? >_>

  • he's like the David Suzuki of Science ^_^

  • I thought there would be better comments for this vid.

  • @edvolve did u read ALL the comments not just the ones on the first page?

  • @cirelancaster Your point is non sensical because you imagine a race it's like imagining ur a marathon runner and race a fictional race then tell people who don't race it crazy for not being in the marathon

  • Science isn't an exact science. It's the best guess we have for the workings of the universe. So does it really matter if Einstein was wrong? Think of Newton, he thought he had the universe all figured out, but oops his laws didn't seem to work. So is Einstein wrong? Probably, but hey the universe still works, and we'll keep guessing why. Some things are just beyond the scope of the human mind.

  • as we get smarter were bond to look back on things and say they weren't correct

  • Whatever we all may think about this or that, I feel pretty awesome about being able to hear the thoughts of a personable genius :D Kaku ftw!

  • WHOOOOO HOOO!!! IM DANCING!! we knew this already but i love hearing this.. wish i would have been in school or atealt in contact with people in this field... any one want to take me under their wing?!!!! iam in!

  • This is an older video. Look for the video where he sais the experiment gave wrong results and why.

  • cant we all just get along

  • I wish time travel was real :(

  • Paradox.

  • Always thought speeding the electron an atom could may imtergallic.travel a reality

  • Entire modern Physic is political lie. Michio you are lost in space. New physic is coming, be careful Michio, it is coming , the truth is coming!

  • @SMILJANable

    There's not enough ridicule in the world to accurately assess your comment LOL!!!

  • @SMILJANable haha stupid

  • Using the oscillators and changing length of the Wave, analyzing analyzingTesla was able to beam electrons from infinite speed down to speed of light. This is well known fact. Also when Tesla did discover anti gravity waves, after analyzing them he found that thay move 64 times faster than speed of light. What is Einsteins discovery? Confusion in the Physic.

  • Why would we want nuclear weapons re-calibrated?

  • Wrooooong Michio! You got to go in the school to reeducate yourself. Time does not play with speed of light. Michio, read Tesla. Professors are parrots, they are not discoverers like Tesla.

  • I knew it! I always know that the c is not a constant! I always tell people that it is not a constant and people tell me that I'm wrong! O man, I knew it years ago without any concrete proof, not with an intuition but through some crazy method :D!

  • I like this physicist. He sticks to his love for science and doesn't shove atheism propaganda up peoples asses

  • The speed of light is not the ultimate speed limit. All speeds are relative, so that your speed relative to one object is entirely different relative to another object. Say we discovered a rogue planet approaching our Solar System doing 75% the speed of light. NASA sends a spaceship to land on the planet. What is its speed then?

  • @SuperMagnetizer or if you have two beams of light traveling in opposite directions the speed at which they are moving from each other is twice the speed of light.

  • @derWolfemann Yes, but the universe is ever expanding in all directions at once. The further something is from something else, the faster it is moving. So the speed of two photons moving away from each other would not be constant, it would gradually increase.

  • @StereoFlange

    The "expansion" you're talking about only applies to the space between galaxies. Photons within a galaxy are not effected by the expansion of the universe.

  • It's not that Einstein was the most intelligent person, but is one of those who managed to get their thought out on a paper and explained with words.

  • Einstien wasn't wrong ; he just got only part of the cosmic big picture ?.

  • After listening to this, I wish I had studied Science in High School and University lol

  • Prove theirs a "God"...

  • why do people say time goes backwards when you travel faster than light? isnt it just an illusion of going backwards because of the light you would see reaching your eyes in reverse order? someone with physics brain please elaborate? me no get? relativimaty?

  • @dyingtolive123 Consider the first 3 dimensions. I can go up or down, left or right, in or out. But time seems to be special, why can I only go one direction in the 4th dimension? Shouldn't there be a way to reverse it?

  • Mind...blown

    

  • And I need to re-calibrate my Lightsaber.

    Prof. Michio Kaku, you're soooo d-mn SMART.

  • Nikola Tesla proved that Einsteins theory is wrong...

  • I want to be fizz - a - zzz

  • Michio i love your explanation. And of course you are so cute too.

  • FUCK BEAR GRYLLS!!!!!

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  • I've watched too much. My life is worthless. *goes to the nearest bridge*

  • OH NO WE HAVE TO RE CALIBRATE BUZZ LIGHTYEARS NAME!!!!!!!

  • YOU ARE ALL WRONG! ONLY JESUS IS RIGHT!

  • @Kalohuxify I HOPE UR JOKING

  • @Kalohuxify hey, I'm Christian too but come on man, just because people aren't talking about spirituality doesn't mean they're wrong, now i realize that by trying to gain knowledge they turn themselves into fools, but that still doesn't mean they're all wrong, they're right about a lot of things, but I do agree with you though, Jesus is very right

  • Why the fuck do we have so many religious nuts on here??

    I remember I have some quite big debates with friends who are Waterloo professors/researchers on this topic when we saw the news on National Geographic. Personally I stand on neutral ground because there are too many questions I haven't been able to answer to myself on Einstein's general relativity and I still can't trust the newly discovery on neutrino.

  • @binbashLinuxAhole

    ...because science is often about religion. And people like Michio is a great example on someone preaching the 'wrong gospel'.

    Satisfied with my answer ?

  • @68HC060

    "because science is often about religion"

    Science is NEVER about religion. If science just so happens to make a discovery that directly contradicts your religious beliefs, that does not mean science is "about religion". Are you mentally handicapped?

  • @drche420

    Sorry to say this, but there are WAY too many "religious" people claiming they're scientists. They speak of what they do not know, and think they sound clever. Michio is one of them.

  • @68HC060

    Michio has never claimed to be a theist, though he may be a diest. Also, what does that have to do with my comment?

  • @drche420 FYI: I didn't reply to your comment, I replied to binbashLinuxAhole.