Wednesday 28 September 2011

Speed of Light -- Never a Limit

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The weekend's newspaper provided a little bit of very late scientific news:

The science world was left in shock when workers at the world's biggest physics laboratory announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light -- a feat that Einstein said was impossible.
... The West, "Doubts over Einstein Theory", 24 Sep 2011

So what's new? Here's an even older story:

"Nothing can go that fast..."
"Einstein’s Theory is still a theory... And theories are modified to fit facts. Hokay."
... The Skylark of Space, E.E. "Doc" Smith, 1928

... Following which discussion, our heroes blithely accelerate their spaceship -- the Skylark -- to travel faster than the speed of light.

The newly reported "doubts" have been anticipated and tested, long before "workers at the world's biggest physics laboratory" even began to suspect that Einstein's theory is, in fact, only a theory.

Hokay?

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