

New theory describes faster than light travel, could explain CERN's results


I. CERN Results Potentially Described



Einstein Theory of Special Relativity




II. Placating the Critics


Hyperlightspeed travel




Source: RSPA

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By wordsworm on 10/13/2012 12:39:17 AM , Rating: 3
I know BBT and GTR fairly well. They're not particularly complicated. The comparison isn't irrelevant. Light and sound have many similar properties. They are both waves. Neither wave can be accelerated by physically moving the emitter. Both can be used to convey the passage of time. Both experience frequency acceleration and deceleration depending on the relative speed/direction of the emitter and the receiver. This is all very basic and easily verified. My only contention is that speed has no effect on time. The only effect it has is on the visual representation of time in exactly the same way that the sound of time can be affected. I contend that time itself is not bent. Interestingly enough, my theory, if it's correct, doesn't make any of Einstein's theories any less valuable. Quite simply, since light does bend and distort, time and visual representations of things is not as it seems. It's all very simple, actually. I find it quite incredible that most physicists still haven't figured it out.

By drycrust3 on 10/13/2012 5:04:52 AM , Rating: 2

If you have a moving object that emits light, e.g. a star, then obviously the movement of the object affects the frequency of light. The question, though, is does the frequency increase at the source and maintain a constant C, or does the velocity of light increase in speed by the amount of velocity of the object while maintaining a constant frequency? Einstein would say the former is the correct answer, i.e. the frequency of light was increased and the speed remains the same, but is that really the correct answer?
The people in the article have said the speed of light was no longer fixed, so is there an easy way to prove or disprove it?





the frequency of the signal is maintained

by this I mean the nature of the waveform is maintained.



There is a Nobel prize for Physics.

Not sure why he'd get the one for Peace.


By kowlie on 10/13/2012 7:17:22 PM , Rating: 5
I don't believe you know either of those theories very well (frankly, it seems you don't understand even SR, let alone GR, at all) given your statements. I'm assuming you are trolling.
The big difference between light and sound is that light requires no medium. It is self-propagating. That was one of the results of the M-M experiment. There is no evidence for aether.
Sound can't exist without a medium. It is exactly compression/expansion waves of the medium.

By wordsworm on 10/21/2012 12:21:21 PM , Rating: 2
We do not have the tools necessary to see every facet of the universe, either small or big. In any case, I'm referring to how sound and light describe time.

