This video about muons (an “elementary subatomic particle similar to the electron but 207 times heavier”) explains:
One byproduct of these collisions is the creation of extraordinarily short-lived particles known as muons that, rather curiously, seem to exist for much longer when moving towards the planet than when created by scientists working in the lab.
“Extremely small and incredibly fast, muons offer amazing proof of special relativity” at Aeon
Apparently, time dilation that we can observe is to blame. The only reason for the “alas” is that the conflict between major theories that are all well-supported must leave some wishing that at least some of the contenders could be less well-supported. 😉
See also: Physicists need courage to confront the Collider dilemma, says boson pioneer Could the great age of particle physics be coming to an end? That is, not so much a crisis as the beginning of a long, slow decline? That happened to science in many former civilizations. There were high points and then somehow things slowed down. How would we know?
Sabine Hossenfelder: Has The Large Hadron Collider “Broken Physics”?
Extreme black hole shows Einstein was right Of course, there is so much talk these days of a crisis in physics that one is tempted to wonder if vindicating Einstein is regarded as just as positive an event as it would have been decades ago. Good stuff anyway.
At Scientific American: Understanding the cosmology crisis
At Forbes: Cosmology’s Crisis Is Merely “Manufactured Misunderstandings”
Rob Sheldon: The real reason there is a crisis in cosmology Nearly everything that has failed about the Big Bang model has been added because of bad metaphysics, a refusal to accept the consequences of a beginning. The remaining pieces of the Big Bang model that are failing and which can’t be attributed to bad metaphysics, were added from sheer laziness.
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So this is all quite encouraging, right? We obviously have two extremely well-supported theories which work incredibly well in their own domains, so we seem to be on the right track. Equally obviously, there seems to be no way to reconcile the two which suggests we are still missing a piece – or maybe many pieces – of the puzzle. So this means there is still stuff to look for – which is exciting.
There should never be an ‘alas’ attached to an experimental verification of Einstein’s special relativity. The reason why ‘alas’ should never be attached to an experimental verification of Einstein’s special relativity is because special relativity reveals, just as Christianity has always held, that an ‘eternal’ higher dimension actually does physically exist above this temporal dimension.
To grasp the whole concept of time coming to a complete stop at the speed of light a little more easily, imagine moving away from the face of a clock at the speed of light. Would not the hands on the clock stay stationary as you moved away from the face of the clock at the speed of light? Moving away from the face of a clock at the speed of light happens to be the very same ‘thought experiment’ that gave Einstein his breakthrough insight into special relativity. Here is a short clip from a video that gives us a look into Einstein’s breakthrough insight.
The only way it is possible for time not to pass for light, and yet for light to move from point A to point B in our universe, is if light is of a higher dimensional value of time than the temporal time we are currently living in. Otherwise light would simply be ‘frozen within time’ to our temporal frame of reference.
In fact, the higher dimensional nature of special relativity was a discovery that was made by one of Einstein math professors in 1908 prior to Einstein’s elucidation of General Relativity in 1915. (In fact, in 1916 Einstein fully acknowledged his indebtedness to Minkowski)
One way for us to more easily understand this higher dimensional framework for time that light exist in is to visualize what would happen if a hypothetical observer approached the speed of light.
In the following video clip, which was made by two Australian University Physics Professors, we find that the 3-Dimensional world ‘folds and collapses’ into a tunnel shape as a ‘hypothetical’ observer approaches the ‘higher dimension’ of the speed of light.
To give us a better understanding as to what it would be like to exist in a higher dimension, this following video, Dr. Quantum in Flatland, also gives us a small insight as to what it would be like to exist in a higher dimension:
Moreover, to further validate the Christian’s claim that heaven is actually physically real and actually exists we don’t have to rely solely on our scientific evidence from special relativity. But we can also reference the many testimonies of people who have died for a short while and come back to tell us what they saw. These testimonies are termed Near Death Experiences.
Many of the characteristics found in Near Death Experience testimonies are exactly what we would expect to see from what we now know to be true about Special Relativity: For instance, many times people who have had a Near Death Experience mention that their perception of time was radically altered:
In the following video clip, Mickey Robinson gives his Near Death testimony of what it felt like for him to experience a ‘timeless eternity’.
And here are a few more quotes from people who have had a Near Death Experience, that speak of how their perception of time was radically altered as they were outside of their material, temporal, body.
As well, Near Death Experiencers also frequently mention going through a tunnel to a higher heavenly dimension:
In the following video, Barbara Springer gives her testimony as to what it felt like for her to go through the tunnel:
And in the following audio clip, Vicki Noratuk, who has been blind from birth, besides being able to see for the first time during in her life during her Near Death Experience,,,
,,, Vicki also gives testimony of going through a tunnel:
And both of the following quotes testify that they firmly believed that they were in a higher dimension that is above this three-dimensional world and that the primary reason that they have a very difficult time explaining what their Near Death Experiences felt like is because we simply don’t currently have the words to properly describe that higher dimension:
Thus, ‘alas’ should be the last word that comes to mind when special relativity achieves yet another experimental verification. Since it is indeed yet another experimental verification that a heavenly paradise does actually physically exist above this temporal realm. I think “hallelujah” might certainly be a much more appropriate word to use, since we can now know, with scientific certainty, that a heavenly eternal paradise is above this temporal world.
Verse:
The absolute quality of the speed of light, not at all relating to space-time, as the car headlight-illustration appearing in encyclopaedias indicates, evidently demonstrates that the reference-frame of light, while allowing interaction with space-time, is not space-time, but autonomous and external in origin.
That reads like a tautology, but I hope you get my drift.
Maybe, I should take the opportunity to delete it, but it makes sense to me. By ‘autonomous and external in origin’, I meant, ‘non-local’.
Moreover, how could the speed of light be always adjusted to maintain its absolute speed in relation to the car that it is following and its beam hitting, without its or the agency behind it, having foreknowledge of the context, i.e concerning the car usage and the driver’s intentions and and subsequent actions with the car – predicating theism.