COMMENTARY | In a startling new discovery, the European Organization for Nuclear Research says is has defied the law of physics and Albert Einstein’s time-tested theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
According to Mail Online, physicists at CERN research institute near Geneva, Switzerland, conducted an experiment in which they sent a beam of neutrinos 500 miles from their facility to a lab in Italy. The scientists discovered the neutrinos had arrived 60 billionth of a second quicker than the speed of light.
The physicists themselves were bewildered, but their findings were checked stringently, and the results were based on three years of measurements. They put their results out to the scientific community so their conclusion could be confirmed.
In the United States, Fernilab has already performed its own experiment, called MINOS, and also clocked the neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light back in 2007. The researchers did not release their findings, as the margin of error was greater than the one reported in the CERN experiment.
If the CERN findings are confirmed, it will change everything we know about the basics of physics and essentially the way our world and the universe works altogether. Did you know that anything that goes faster than the speed of light also goes backward in time?
For years it’s been said backwards time travel was not possible because of the fact that it is physically impossible to go faster than the speed of light. Imagine the possibilities if it was discovered that this theory is not true.
Throughout time, discoveries have been made that have changed the way we look at our planet and the entire universe. We can’t be so narrow-minded to assume that everything we’ve been taught up to this point about physics and the world we live in is correct and will not change in the future.
It wasn’t so long ago that we all thought out earth was flat and people believed if they sailed far enough they would fall off the edge of the world. This was believed for thousands of years; when it was finally discovered that our planet was actually round, it changed everything.
It would be sad to believe that there are no new discoveries that will change our world as much as that one did n the future. Could this be one of those? It’s exciting to think about, and opens up a world of new possibilities.