Scientists make startling discovery

[Klaudandus]

Enough about entanglement, more about sending data back in time with neutrinos.

[theckhd]

Enough about entanglement, more about sending data back in time with neutrinos.

My money is still on "unidentified systematic error."

[Shoju]

My money is that it's the beginning of the Flux Capacitor!


Or not. I don't know wth I'm talking about for real.

[halabar]

In October, they will run the experiment again, creating a black hole, and....

[theckhd]

In October, they will run the experiment again, creating a black hole, and....

and send the results back in time to us?

That's my real problem with time travel. If it ever gets discovered, we'd probably have heard about it already.

[Klaudandus]

In October, they will run the experiment again, creating a black hole, and....

and send the results back in time to us?

That's my real problem with time travel. If it ever gets discovered, we'd probably have heard about it already.

What if it is because of course-correction and we're not supposed to find it yet? I mean, seriously, a bagel dropped by a bird at exactly the spot that it would cause damage to the LHC?

[Brekkie]

In October, they will run the experiment again, creating a black hole, and....

and send the results back in time to us?

That's my real problem with time travel. If it ever gets discovered, we'd probably have heard about it already.

Who's to say that because time travel backwards seems impossible that time travel forwards is too?

[Klaudandus]

From what I gather, that's theoretically possible by getting close enough to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole without crossing it. It's technically more effective to actually get closer to the black hole, but once you cross the event horizon, the matter is getting out of the black hole.

Remember, just going faster already reduces your time compared to an static observer

You should check this out.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fa ... abric-time

[aureon]

I doubt anyone has problems with going forward, if by forward you mean 'faster' and not 'istantaneously'
And of course, there's no going back.

[Klaudandus]

I doubt anyone has problems with going forward, if by forward you mean 'faster' and not 'istantaneously'
And of course, there's no going back.

Baby steps.

Also, remember, the true genius is not the one that created the wheel, but rather, the one that came up with the axle =P

[Weebey]

It appears that a poor connection between pieces of equipment was probably responsible for the alleged superluminal measurements: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsid ... Rc.twitter

Not terribly surprising, of course--the odds that this was actually true were very small--but it is still nice to have the error identified.

[Flex]

So they could've solved this by calling their IT at the start.

"Is your keyboard plugged in?"

[Holyblaze]

Nooooooooooooooooo!

[theckhd]

My money is still on "unidentified systematic error."

Score one for "unidentified systematic error!"

[Brekkie]

How dissapointingly prosaic. I was hoping the nature of the error would be somewhat less basic.