Dear religious people, it would probably be very educational to watch how science handles this new neutrino data.
A cornerstone of physics is crumbling(?).
It used to be that nothing bested the speed of light.
Now, if the experiments in CERN - The Large Hadron Collider play out and it's not just a timing error, a key component of physics core knowledge is about to be wiped out; the speed of light will always remain the speed of light but perhaps that it is the limit of speed, may be usurped and replaced with new data.
To put it in religious language this change is so huge it would be like Chrstians finding out Jesus was a woman which, I'm sure you knee-benders would admit, might just cause a bit of a stir in the ranks of the believers, maybe even split the church into Man jesus worshippers and Woman jesus worshippers.
With science, however, there'll likely be no wailing and weeping, no schisms, forming of factions etc; whatever the data reveals to be the truth will be accepted and embraced as the facts of the matter.
It may even usher in a new golden age of physics, an opportunity to refine our knowledge and who knows maybe even eliminate some of the vaious string theory versions.
This is one of the Too Many Questions
Full story from BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15830844
A cornerstone of physics is crumbling(?).
It used to be that nothing bested the speed of light.
Now, if the experiments in CERN - The Large Hadron Collider play out and it's not just a timing error, a key component of physics core knowledge is about to be wiped out; the speed of light will always remain the speed of light but perhaps that it is the limit of speed, may be usurped and replaced with new data.
To put it in religious language this change is so huge it would be like Chrstians finding out Jesus was a woman which, I'm sure you knee-benders would admit, might just cause a bit of a stir in the ranks of the believers, maybe even split the church into Man jesus worshippers and Woman jesus worshippers.
With science, however, there'll likely be no wailing and weeping, no schisms, forming of factions etc; whatever the data reveals to be the truth will be accepted and embraced as the facts of the matter.
It may even usher in a new golden age of physics, an opportunity to refine our knowledge and who knows maybe even eliminate some of the vaious string theory versions.
So, once again,
nothing has really changed,
we just know more.
nothing has really changed,
we just know more.
PEACE
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