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NEWS > SCIENCE > EINSTEIN PROVEN WRONG ON SPEED OF LIGHT, BOUFFANT HAIRSTYLES
EINSTEIN PROVEN WRONG ON SPEED OF LIGHT, BOUFFANT HAIRSTYLES
September 23 2011
Geneva, Switzerland – One of the strongest and most demonstrable concepts in modern physics has been the upper speed limit of the Universe. That is just under 300 million metres per second, the speed of light. For decades, that limitation had been readily accepted as the fastest a thing can go, no matter what shows like ‘Star Trek’ insisted.
In fact, that limit had been readily accepted for well over a hundred years, from the time when Einstein developed his Special theory of Relativity. It was, according to the theory, not just a speed limit but a necessity to keep the fabric of space and time together. Travelling faster than the speed of light would effectively mean that results of an action could occur before the action itself, something impossible in physics and in even common sense.
Now though, researchers at CERN have apparently done the impossible, broken the speed of light. An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has shown that neutrinos can regularly and repeatedly travel slightly faster than the speed of light, throwing into disarray everything we know of modern physics and the greatest work of perhaps the greatest scientific mind to ever live. Add in the rise and fall of his iconic hair style, and we may be seeing the end of the cult of Einstein forever.
“Most theorists believe that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So if this is true, it would rock the foundations of physics,” said Stephen Parke of Fermilab, a sentiment that was echoed around the world in an instant.
“If you've got something travelling faster than light, then it's the most profound discovery of the last 100 years or more in physics. It's a very, very big deal. It requires a complete rewriting of our understanding of the universe,” said Brian Cox of the University of Manchester.
The reason for the uproar is not because it simply does away with Einstein’s theory, it is largely because much of our understanding of the way our physical universe works is based on that one constant, that speed limit. Without it, much of physics over the last century will be undone completely.
Researchers at CERN have asked others to check and recheck their work, but if proven correct, the world may never be the same for physics or for the legacy of Einstein.
In related news, many celebrities who had copied his iconic hairstyle, names such as Robert Pattinson and Andrew Garfield, have moved towards more traditional cuts, indicating a further erosion of the Einstein legacy.
“Albert Einstein will always be regarded as one of the greatest minds in human history but, like all great minds of the past, new discoveries and developments will change his work. It’s already happened a few times with him and with this, this massive one, well it may finally mean that we are passing on from him entirely, just as we did with Plato and Copernicus in the past,” said Scrape TV Science analyst Dr. Howard Poe. “Time moves on and there’s nothing that can be done to stop that, or reverse that, well at least according to Einstein. Now it may be possible in a way, though probably not enough to bring back his legacy. As speeds increase and stars flatten their hair, the legacy of Einstein will slowly fade away and eventually, in the blink of an eye, it will be lost to the past, at least until someone travels back and retrieves it.”
Einstein’s estate has not commented on either of the new developments.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent
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