I’ll note that the scientists will be presenting these results tomorrow at a conference at CERN. We’ll learn more then. It’s not clear to me if these results are being published, or have been peer-reviewed, or what. As usual, we’ll need to have other scientists either confirm this result using other equipment, or show where things went wrong. That’s how science works. And the scientists involved are asking for criticism here! That’s just so; incredible results need to be tested incredibly well.
So don’t let your imagination run away with this just yet. This result will, in my opinion, probably turn out to be incorrect for some reasons dealing with measurement. Faster than light travel is still a dream, even though I wouldn’t say it’s impossible… just very, very, very, very unlikely.
Source: Faster-than-light travel discovered? Slow down, folks. Bad Astronomy
This is quite possibly the nerdiest headline I've ever written, but I digress. If proven to be true the findings published by the CERN scientists are pontentially world changing. Not only would the book on physics have to be rewritten, the findings would completely alter the benchmark humanity has set for itself by what we believe technologically to be possible, besides blowing ourselves into radioactive smitherines.
Or, if you wanted to give this an economics angle, this could be some media stunt to make the multi-billion CERN project seem relevant again since they can't seem to be able to nail down the Higgs Boson.
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