Subatomic particles travelling FASTER than the Speed of Light.

Very recently, some research that has not yet been published, but provides an inkling towards the fact that something can travel faster than the speed of light has been discovered.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-0923-speed-of-light-20110923,0,497738.story

If you think this is bogus, google for yourself. It's a very recent discovery that, though has not yet been published nor confirmed may provide inordinately useful and challenging information for particle physicists to reconcile, and conjure up a new theory, and or add an addendum to the old Special Relativity.

 

That's quiet a find :/
Now to utilize it in time traveling... Aye?

 

I still don't see how you could be your own grandmother...

Seems like a pretty stupid metaphor if you ask me.

 

Interesting, well that would completely dash all theories of "time travel" because if those particles are travelling faster than the speed of light, then that means time travel doesn't work that way.

 

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Anyways, when they rule out possible errors and oversights and there's more supporting studies it'll be awesome, at least because of the fantasies offered by the possibilities. Until then, don't bet on time traveling to the past to save your first love from a tragic accident.

 

Yes, this aids the theory of time travel, but it's still a far fetched idea. Sure, they got subatomic particles to travel at the speed of light, now get every particle in the human body to do it... Impossible.

Still an incredible discovery non the less, assuming the research is accurate.

 

If you're a female, you go back in time, fuck your grandfather, have his child, then go back to the present.

 

No, people time travel all the time, even though it is a tiny amount.

For example

If you flew on a plain for 24hours straight and got off you would be younger than you would have been if you had not got on the plain.

It's an interesting find, but id like to see more test results, for example over a larger area other than 450miles.

 

Parallel universes. I know it would be sort of stupid to go back to the past to fuck a grandfather who's not actually your grandfather, but that's one possible explanation...

I personally think it'll be a LONG time before we start time traveling (but I'm still skeptic if it's even possible), but if this is confirmed to be true, then that changes a lot of things.

 

Yea nvm. I had been thinking about it from the male perspective.

At least it sounds more or less feasible that way, if not at all practical.

 

Wait, if the particles are moving faster than the speed of light that means the particles are going back in time right?

 

In theory, yes.

 

Well in that case wouldnt the particles reach the destination slower?

 

No, please explain how you came to that conclusion?

 

Well if your going back how could you reach something in the future? Like if it leaves destination A traveling faster than the speed of light (and in theory going back in time) how would it reach destination B unless it decelerates?

Im probably just confused lol.

 

it would just reach the point quicker than light would have, technically the particles would have gone back in time, but it would be so miniscule you would only be able to tell by highly sensitive equipment.

 

Since we're talking about time travel and the grandfather paradox, I'll give a mindfuck quiz to everybody.

A baby girl is mysteriously left at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room. Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he (Jane) join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant. The bartender then goes forward nine months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

Now draw Jane's family tree.

 

Okay, I understand now. I was really overlooking the fast that its only a 60 nanosecond difference.

 

Space and time travel is so confusing lol

 

It might be true, but I believe that what really happened was that the neutrinos actually skipped through dimensions or something similar, and I believe that light would still be the fastest thing in the world if they stayed in the same dimension.