Faster Than Light Neutrinos (maybe): Field Trip!

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[TheDogwhistles]

Whoah whoah whoah. If we had to use GPS to get an exact time reading, and this experiment would disprove General and Special Relativity, which we use to create exact reading on GPS, wouldn't there never be a conclusive record?

[DonAbhilash]

Can light travel faster than chuck norris??

[Racoonieboy]

@Cracklesss It's paper.

[Cracklesss]

Wait wait! Hold on...do crayola markers really work well on regular white boards???

[tabaks]

@DonAbhilash Actually, Chuck Norris' foot during a round kick travels 299,792,458 m/s. Light just never got the balls to travel faster.

[KonstantinosPrime]

@TheDogwhistles I wouldn't be surprised that neutrinos move faster than light. I can say that you can accelerate them to greater speeds if you have the power.

Now why the neutrinos can move faster than light is because the theory of relativity says that to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light you would need infinite energy as its mass would grow to infinity at 99.999...% of the speed of light. So if photons have no mass they can move at C. So can neutrinos if they got no mass.

[toxicflyFisher]

i actually enjoyed this!

[clemonsx90]

@hongyi8 They're still rerunning the experiment. That's just a likely cause. There is still some controversy.

[AZNGodPro]

HELL YEAH MAGIC SCHOOL BUS

[CommanderOrion732]

@minutephysics: Please update this video, the experiment was disproved. The researchers forgot to account for relativity when using the satellites to measure the start and stop times, thus creating the illusion that the neutrinos went faster than the speed of light.

[ACaffeineAddict]

@bulletkip Why the frowny face? We should be happy that Einstein is, once again, vindicated.

[bulletkip]

faulty cables :(((