Living in the future
Everything you know is wrong. Well, maybe. We’re not sure yet. Wait! We don’t know.
I’m confused.
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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:07 am
faster than light was resolved decades ago. Everyone know that. I seened it on Tayvay.
September 23rd, 2011 at 9:30 am
On the other hand, cold fusion may work.
September 23rd, 2011 at 10:20 am
From what I’ve been able to read on this (and remember, I get confused watching Sesame Street, so take this for what it’s worth), it’s admitted that they’re not confident their measurements are correct and thus are releasing their data to find where that error is more than they are looking for confirmation of their findings.
Releasing the data, asking for peer review, total openness. You know, real science.
If their findings were correct, then there’s neutrinos from a supernova we observed that should have gotten here years before.
Science is a learning process. Whatever is happening here will teach us something. Maybe not that we’re totally wrong, though 😉
September 23rd, 2011 at 10:33 am
But if we HAVE cracked the FTL barrier, that leaves only one question: What Gun for Klingons?
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:54 am
easy, les: phasers set on shake n’ bake.
September 23rd, 2011 at 3:35 pm
We’re all up against The Wall of Science!
September 23rd, 2011 at 5:22 pm
There was another amazing development this week on the order of “Strange Days” which spins off another whole set of new implications for mankind: http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Releasing the data, asking for peer review, total openness. You know, real science.
Ouch!
September 23rd, 2011 at 8:45 pm
There have been cracks in Einstein’s view of the universe almost since day one. (See the entire subject of quantum physics, and Einstein’s inability to get his mind around things like the uncertainty principle.)
I particularly like the quantum entanglement effects. Create 2 particles at the same time under very special circumstances, and acting on one, has an instantaneous effect on the other. No matter the separation. So in some ways, even though we see the 2 particles as separated by a non-trivial distance, the universe sees them as occupying the same space.
Then there is the whole question of time. It doesn’t act quite the way you think it does.
Climate change is a perfect example – sadly – of how science all too often works. (Click through to Popehat to see my comment on dark matter.)
Scientists are people, and have their pet theories. And cosmologists are the worst – I think because they can’t actually do any experiments. (That takes up a whole lot of time for particle physicists.)
(And Les, I would go with a 12 gauge for Klingons. All that physical redundancy needs overkill, and the cranial plate probably causes problems for head-shots.)
September 24th, 2011 at 6:57 am
Garand with AP for Klingons. Cranial plate? Not when they no longer have a head.
As for the Euro particle, I’d have more confidence in that discovery if they could run their economy better and they weren’t warmists, and they weren’t so keen on gun control, and they weren’t assholes.
September 26th, 2011 at 9:39 am
You can say that again. Once that buzzer goes off, time doubles in speed and I can’t make a shot worth a damn.
September 27th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Yea yea, scientists also used to say that nothing could exceed the speed of sound, until it was proven that that particular trick wasn’t even all that hard. I don’t believe for a minute that there is a barrier to exceeding the speed of light other than man’s inginuity to get us there.
Einstien looked at the world through the understanding of his time. His discoveries built upon that understanding. It shouldn’t be surprising to find that he could have been wrong about a few things. Hell, practically everything that Freud ever said has been pretty much disproven at this point, but he is still honored because his contribution to psycology and much of what we now “know” wouldn’t have been possible without it.
We stand on the shoulders of the great men who came before us.
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