And fanaticism isn’t one of the listed virtues:
In “Two Alberts Can Be Wrong” (Townhall , September 30, 2011), commentator Tony Katz teases outsome of the popular culture implications of faster-than-light neutrinos.
Researchers were sending Neutrinos – sub-atomic particles – on a 730+km ride from Geneva to the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. They noticed that the neutrinos were arriving ahead of schedule. It was only fractions of a second, but this is the world of physics! Every nano-second counts. This is Einstein’s world – Albert Einstein – who theorized over 100 years ago that nothing could travely faster than light in a vacuum: a speed of 186,282 miles per hour.
The implications are overwhelming, even to those of us who are not physicists, or thosw who had to double check to see if I spelled physicist properly. Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of physics, though not for his Theory of Relativity. However, that is how we know him. All of us know him. We call smart kids “Einsteins.” There is a kids cartoon called “Little Einsteins.” He has, in American culture, been cannonized. And its possible that he is wrong!
Ain’t science great? Over 100 years of a theory, used as the basis for physicists all around the world, and – by chance! – a subatomic particle on its way to Italy can possibly prove him wrong. Possibly, because the scientific community is going to be studying this data for a long time.
Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong. Has Darwin ever been wrong? Ever?
of note as to ‘violating’ the space-time constraints of Relativity:
as to the implications of violating the space-time constraints of relativity, which seems to be what is bothering so many physicists so much about this ‘unverified’ faster than light neutrino, the implications of violating space-time have already been worked in quantum mechanics to a certain degree, since the actions of quantum mechanics blatantly defies the constraints of space-time
further note:
As well, it should be pointed out that the Bible is a ‘supernatural’ book that has many verified prophecies in it that blatantly violate the space-time constraints of Relativity. Here is a particularly sobering one:
The preceding start date, used in the prophecy calculation, is confirmed by the archaeological record:
music:
OT: Part 8 of 8; Casey Luskin’s final article in his series dealing with Dennis Venema’s unfounded claims;
Critically Analyzing the Argument from Human/Chimpanzee Genetic Similarity – Casey Luskin – September 2011
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