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pinballwizard79:
Whatev

The expansion of our universe & everything in it (even my Cruis'n World arcade) currently outpaces light speed (relative to what is unknown) so obviouisly there are laws FROM other dimensions that influence ours.

We try to put rules & theories of how it all works or might work but at the end of the day we are here, not there, so its all for nothing.

Do you think CERN can build a working Star Wars controller & actually ship it?

SuprSprint:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on September 22, 2011, 06:06:05 pm ---Its likely a measuring error, or something to do with the quantum nature of the particles, I doubt its a fundamental flaw in one of the cornerstones of physics, but hey, you never know.
--- End quote ---

I tend to agree.  The odds of an error in one experiment vs. the odds of a consistent error in all experimental data to date is significant. After all, experimentally measuring and calculating "c" is one of the first experiments done by a freshman physics student. My gut says additional energy or time dilation was not accounted for somewhere.

That said, it is not at all impossible that c is indeed variable but appears constant for our frame of reference. Once upon a time, we thought time was invariant....

vcoleiro1:
Hopefully this will open the door for time travel so that you may one day travel back in time to your favourite arcade. Once there you will be able to shock and awe everyone with your amazing arcade gaming skills which unknown to them would have been gathered by you in there future.

Crazy Cooter:
it could also be indicative of space warping so the neutrinos travelled AT the speed of light but travelled less distance than what our frame of reference (and our measuring points to calculate their speed) physically measured.

(think of contour lines and imagine a Doppler effect that the neutrino travels across but we are unable to measure/detect)

Donkbaca:
What if WE all slowed down! Whoa! Pass the bong!

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