Michio Kaku on faster-than-light neutrinos.

[AdityaPuranik1]

Everybody chill out-There was a wiring problem thus making the measurement inaccurate.Einstein is still right.

[CACBCCCU]

The latest news from CERN will be good for making another clever lynching analogy. 

[CACBCCCU]

CERN and Kaku are apparently trying to outdo each other in fostering a new generation of curved-space retards.

[jaypeddie]

say what you want about this, if he really came up with all that on the top of his head he truly is an amazing public speaker

[Astrophysicsist]

Turns out faster than light neutrinos was an error because of a loose cable, it sucks but hey what can you do.

[freelistic]

Wow, didn't realize Kaku, was so defensive over an experiment, that's still scheduled to be repeated.

Kind of closed minded for a "Theoretical" Physicist.

[Vroom246]

@freelistic well like he said, if einstein's theory was proven wrong, it would mean a total revamping of pretty much everything we thought we knew about physics. plus, he probably calculated so many things with the use of einstein's theory.

hopefully this experiment, they'll do better with the cabling.

[hill33ification]

Do not forget one more thing, according to history," heretics" allways wins, and Tesla was big one!!! Also, Tesla was inventor of AC, the radio, the wireless transmission, laser etc. He is the true father of 20th century and modern tehnology, but at the end he say "the particles faster than light." Quantum Physics is in deep crises!

[hill33ification]

Tesla vs. Edison, Tesla won! Tesla vs. Marconi, Tesla won! In 21 century Tesla vs. Einstein and will we see who will won. Tesla said that the particles faster than light, this is the new field and kingdom for young scientists. CERN in 2011 is confirmed, but this is not end of the war, this is beginning! Quantum Physics is sucks!

Key of universe are with me and future is my - Nikola Tesla

[GoongalaGoongala]

I get the feeling that in the next ten years CERN ( the Large Hadron Collider) will make some amazing discoveries. I also think that some of those discoveries will fundamentally change the way scientists think because they will either totally destroy previously held beliefs or reinforce them is some crazy ways. CERN could possibly change the world in ways we couldn't even imagine. Crazy stuff even if it's wrong because it opens up possibilites for the things CERN can find. What will happen next?

[Adaerus]

@GoongalaGoongala Let me make a prediction: CERN will discover that God exists and all religions will disappear in an instant. If God exists God would be according to how science describes God and not based on human imagination.

[Adaerus]

@Adaerus If one believes in God and not in science that is a serious case of delusion. However, to be certain that God doesn't exist because science proves it is also a serious case of delusion. Science is not set up to prove or disprove God. It is set up to reveal how things are really like and not how we imagine they are. What actually science says, if anything about God, is that people in general have the wrong concept of what God is.

[DiogenesofCalgary]

Roughly I get 1.000024641 as the index of refraction for dark matter. I was never good at determining the margin of error and in this case I don't have the data necessary to provide a margin of error. It will be very close to that calculated by the people who did the Opera experiment. No theories were harmed in the making of this movie.  :)

[DiogenesofCalgary]

Speed of light used for comparison to the neutrino's speed was the speed of light in dark matter. Yes neutrino's go faster than the speed of light in dark matter or any other matter. Neutrions don't go faster than the maximum speed of light. However the Opera experiment does give us the index of refraction of dark matter and as result proves the existence of dark matter. Also that super nova was in the Taranchula nebula only 160 light years away, but outside our galaxy.

[ClamCrunchy]

Kaku overlooks the rather obvious fact that the neutrinos from the supernova explosion in 1987 and the neutrinos in the Opera experiment had two very different mediums of travel - one was intergalatic space, and the other solid rock.

[Carpathian2010]

Einstein then is like model T is to a Mustang now. He will be proven wrong many times over.

[CognitiveNetwork]

I just used youtube's transcribe audio, you know the CC button? At 3:29 translates to "marijuana under laurel"

[vodkacannon]

The speed of light is different through different mediums. Slower in a gas, fastests in a vaccum...

hmm that explains a lot.

[HardGravy]

@vodkacannon Well anything with ''mass'' is slower in gas, faster in a vaccum

[guyverdio]

the observation from the 1987 supernova was that the neutrinos were slightly behind the speed of light. Some people have suggested that the reason the particles from cern are going faster is because we are slingshotting them beyond the speed of light, enough to leave our membrane then reappearing. This is about as useful as saying god flicked it to go faster, no way to fuckin prove it.

[guyverdio]

Can anyone answer this for me: Does the speed of light ever deteriorate. Like if I talk about something slower like sound, if I yell and you are far enough away not to hear it, is that due to deteriotation of sound or just dispersal of sound?

[kkevin369]

@guyverdio I dont think so.. the speed of light always travels at the same speed. light from galaxies billions of light years away is visible to us so that means they had to travel all that distance to reach us.

[vodkacannon]

@guyverdio There is a univeral fine structure constant and it controlls a lot of physical things. Could it be that the fine structure constant can change? That means that all of the physical constants in our world may have changed by a tiny bit.

Go on Wikipedia and read about the fine structure constant you'll get what I'm talking about. Don't bother with the math too much. It's a headache. Unless its your thing.

[01artfish]

@vodkacannon

Certain research has even shown that light has been slowing down over the centuries.

[ckorweng1]

Seriously, 1 supernova is equivalent to about 1 octilion million pounds of TNT. If that amount of explosion cannot accelerate any particle above speed of light. I seriously doubt anyone on Earth can achieve the impossible.

[drillsargentadog]

Kaku is such a theoretician! One experiment cannot disprove firmly entrenched physics; you need at least one other independent experiment (= done by different people at a different place) to raise a significant question.

[ArnthorJon]

@drillsargentadog He was quoting Einstein on that matter wasn´t he?

[drillsargentadog]

@ArnthorJon I didn't catch the quote part, but it doesn't matter. Physics is based on the scientific method; not on hero worship. I dislike people who think something is right just because a famous physicist says it--plenty of the greats were wrong on many occasions. Also note that Einstein was also *not* an experimentalist.

[onimotoko]

@drillsargentadog Even the strongest structure will topple if it's foundation is weak. I tend to view physics as a well defined structure, with a not so well defined base. Point is, we don't know everything. Maybe Mr. Kaku is assuming too much, but even one sighting of a monster will create a legend. If there are faster than light particles, I am sure we have not seen the last of them.

[drillsargentadog]

@onimotoko If you're talking philosophy of science, there's been a lot written on the 'base' of physics (read Carnap, Popper, and others). There are probably not FTL particles, but if there actually are for some reason, then sure, we'll probably detect them at some point. Observe that the same argument can be made for genies and unicorns.

[bazle64]

we are just beginning to understand the construct of the multiverse, string theory will open the doors to a new understanding of strange nature of reality.

[666VAPULA666]

when something like supernova can't accelerate fundamental particles above speed of light, how someone here on Earth can do that? it is an obvious mistake!

[laurence265]

seems like if einstein was still alive he'd have discovered everything by now lol

[MKMusicman]

@laurence265 lol

[daswada9]

they just have to repeat the experiment !

[daswada9]

in my opinion neutrinos are traveling from our dimension to another that might not have speed of light to be the fastest and then come back a few seconds faster.But if this is true could be very interesting.

[GoFuckYourseff]

Actually, to explain, the fact that there maybe particles faster than light has always been known by physicists. They are known as tachyons and theoretically speaking, they do exist. The math behind this is that every physics formula has both a negative and positive answer but, the negative part of it is usually disregarded. Hence, we knew that anti-matter mathematically existed but ignored it due to it being from a negative equation. In the same way, tachyons (and alike) also do exist. ^_^

[CACBCCCU]

Amazing thing about parrots is they can speak and thereby spread ideas to other parrots.

[TehDako]

and one experiment seems to show that, actually, some things can travel faster than light, it's only natural to be skeptical. Kaku is only being a good scientist here.

[TehDako]

I have to side with Kaku on this one. He thinks it's wrong not because he's being funded by some big corporation or because he is close-minded, but because the special theory of relativity is an incredibly robust and powerful theory supported by over one hundred years of observation. If this result, that neutrinos travel faster than light, was true, Kaku would be the first to admit it. But when the speed of light has been verified over a century to be a constant and the universal speed limit an

[Brygelsmack]

They retested the experiment and got the same results. I would guess it's a fact now.

[Faraz70]

they did the experiment again and it still shows neutrinos travel faster and they eliminated some objections to their earlier experiment? if fermilab also tests it and shows that to be true, then wat? i think we should be open mineded

[maskone909]

arrogance. Are we comparing people who try to discover faster than light particles to nazis?

[ridewave444]

Get with it Kaku. This is real. You go overboard with your fantasies of extra dimensions and other things but yet miss the boat on REAL evidence that is found through experiments. You need to improve your judgement some.

[aKxKarmaX]

@ridewave444 Haha even the people at CERN said that the results are not final, and could very well be wrong.

[ridewave444]

No Kaku. There's something to this however' it doesn't necessarily have to disprove relativity to be true.

[CACBCCCU]

When I see articles titled "The Noose Around Relativity is Tightening" I get the impression Kaku gets a lot of lunatic input from the Mayor's office.

[CACBCCCU]

Kaku's latest commentary on this topic is entitled "The Noose Around Relativity is Tightening."

I guess if it's a systematic error, he'll probably write something calling it a failed lynching.

[NicoleNa666]

The light and neutrinos hit the earth at the same time because light bounces in itself at the time of explosion whilst the neutrinos are let from the get go....

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[kingofdice66]

i'll take this mans word over any other bullshit astrophysicist......;)

[Capeau]

@kingofdice66

i dont, hes funded by lots of big corporation money ;)

[alalelalex]

If you use Einsteins theory to disprove Einsteins theory that only shows that this theory is inconsistent. I do not see why this would disqualify the methodology.

[technatezin]

@alalelalex No, I get what he's saying. The GPS system that orbits above the Earth was used to time the collisions of neutrinos fired from CERN to Italy and therefore also determine the distance traveled, but the problem is that the satellite bouncing the timing signal back to the ground station orbits a warped space-time field above the Earth and it's possible that the experimenters were sloppy about taking this into consideration.

[Belem809]

@alalelalex interesting to think about, can there be a conclusion?

[anakluhur]

@alalelalex you son of a bitch twat. if einstein theory is wrong a l lot of advances gadgets which have been produced and used by someone unproductive consumer cunt idiot like you. But still it works. How do you disprove that asshole?

[azdgariarada]

@alalelalex That's because you and the 8 people who gave you thumbs up are fucking retarded.

[Singetally]

@alalelalex But they are not disproving Einsteins theory...that's the point...they have not, and they will not. CERN re tested the experiment over 150,000 times and got the same result. I thought the people at CERN would be smart enough to know that repeating an experiment over and over and over again does not make the experiment any more credible than the first time they did it. This is because if there was something wrong the first time. It will be wrong the next 150,000 times.

[filleone]

@alalelalex I see why. Let's assume you say the experiment proves Einstein wrong. That means all your measurments used to execute said experiment with gps technology and such, that depend on that same theory, are wrong as well. So the experiment isn't valid, it doesnt prove or disprove anything.

[Singetally]

@alalelalex ...But the point is that they are NOT disproving the theory. I can already tell by that comment that you have never calculated field equations. The fact that Einsteins theory has worked perfectly for everything makes this one experiment have virtually no credibility when they are using the theory itself as its bases. Learn to do the equations.

[M139NG]

@alalelalex The GPS system uses relativistic math to keep the clocks on earth and the clocks on the satellites synchronous.

They have to use the most accurate measuring techniques available(witch without relativity would be useless)

Time dilation is a measured effect , not a result of the theory.

Witch btw, theory predicted (and much more), way before things like that was even measurable.

Study the theory sometime, it's actually the most consistent thing ever to come out of the human brain!

[TheMimeGogo]

Wow! And here I thought he'd be all for it. lol

[KiwiWingate]

I tend to think neutrinos form the outer grid from which all other matter exists on- which could only occur if they are faster than the speed of light even if by a small amount. If we had a spaceship that could travel to the edge of the universe with a neutrino detector on board- I am sure as soon as the detectors could no longer get a reading would be after we had left the expansion burst of the cluster- the question then would be- would matter hold together?

[Borderlands808]

Egg nog. :)

[bazle64]

Starcratfraver. You are out of your intellectual depth mate. Go and watch some MTV.

[bazle64]

I agree something is clearly wrong. Either the measurement results is misread or the experiment itself is flawed. Mass no matter how small cannot break the light speed limit its not possible. Besides causality will be effected if this were true. Which is nonsense.

[Originadmin]

@bazle64 mass can't pass the speed of light or else if you go passed it you would end up with a super massive object that would destroy the universe. But it is possible through quantum tunneling it could just "teleport" for a second while still going the speed of light and not breaking it but still "getting from1 point to the other"

Also if you have a mass of negative you could go faster then the speed of light because you have no mass to slow you down in the first place.

[magicwaldoman]

@StarCraftRaver Such harsh words from someone using incorrect grammar... Plus it kinda sounds like you and Kaku are on the same page anyway.

[StarCraftRaver]

@magicwaldoman I admit the words are somewhat harsh and over the top.

[mp3talon]

@StarCraftRaver maybe stick with brian cox then Lol

[ruminator77]

@StarCraftRaver

Go get a PHD is physics, write multiple books, give lectures around the world, rub shoulders with nobel prize winners, build a particle accelerator and then make such statements about Michio Kaku. And your grammar by the way, needs fixing.

[StarCraftRaver]

@ruminator77 Is he smart? yes he is, what's your point?

He's still a know it all Scientist, you talk about his books as if they have merit of some sort, I've read them all, they are nothing more than fiction. good reads but more Star Trek than Science.

You miss the point where I'm simply making a statement that he is being too harsh with the fact the results were published with the clear understanding a mistake in measuring was likely made.

[ruminator77]

@StarCraftRaver Actually his books are solid where the science is concerned. He does speculate on emerging technologies and how scientific advancements play a part in creating them and quite those speculations form the basis of his books. But they are not just fiction. As for his statement, hes not the only one who has dismissed the findings. Whether you agree with him or not, you cannot deny that he has been successful in turning a whole generation of people onto science.

[HimalayinYogi]

@StarCraftRaver anger issues anyone?  he's not being a prick dude....he's just responding honestly. he knows that CERN is skeptical. chill...

[ATouch0fFaith]

@StarCraftRaver You sound as smart as a rock. Go play in traffic. This man graduated first in his physics class at Harvard. You're going to spend the rest of your life on your parents couch.

[TheBaldchipmunk]

@StarCraftRaver Your saying he needs to stop watching star trek, but your name is StarCraftRaver?

[Nevistrix]

@StarCraftRaver kaku knows what hes talking about, everyone else knows what hes talking about, you dont even know english enough to speek with some sence of intelegence so well just call you stupid.

[enz660]

can you post the entire q&a video please? Thanks!



[magicwaldoman]

@enz660 Wish I could, unfortunately this was the only video I was able to take at his speech. Honestly, none of the other questions were as good as this one even though a very tall man with crazy hair and a creeper 'stache did start a very interesting rant with Kaku lol. Wish I caught that...

[nomargfan661]

@magicwaldoman That man scares me!!! I've seen him on the RIPTA several times and he's insanely creepy.

[nomargfan661]

@magicwaldoman That rant can be found at 1:21:47 on the video of the entire talk.