Imagine this: The foundation of all physics has become deeply and
fundamentally flawed. The center-post and anchor of all astro and
subatomic physics disappears and all calculations made from this anchor
has become suspect. What not 98% of the scientists believe to be true,
but what 100% of the scientists have been making assumptions and
calculations upon no longer is valid.
It’s the equivalent of realizing the pi is not really 22/7 and it
affects how we perceive such basic concepts as what is the past and the
future,
After six months of scrutiny by by 160 scientists from 11
countries, the scientists at CERN are asking the world of physics why a
neutrino has appeared to travel faster than the speed of light and to
please find a way to disprove this observation.
Einstein told us that as a particle approaches the speed of light,
it’s mass approaches infinity and time stops, thus precluding a speed
above 186,000 miles per second. Observations of the physical universe
have seemed to prove this to be true.
Now maybe there may be
exceptions, but we’ve dealt with this before. That’s how science
progresses. Theories are formulated and believed to be true, then shown
to be flawed and we build on the new theory, which then is proved to be
flawed and so it goes. The purpose of the scientific method may just be
to prove itself wrong.
As we get closer to the very small and the very big, we see that math and science as we have constructed them, don’t work.
In the wonder of the universe, no proven scientific standard can be
held up as an undeniable truth. Although this apparent observation
about the neutrino getting to a location before it left home may
eventually prove to be a measuring error, it’s there (or somewhere) to
remind us that the results of science has been wrong in the past, they
will be wrong in the future, and cannot be counted on to be the
unwavering truth some have set it up to be.
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