It's light Jim, but not as we know it...

[d000hg]

Quantum effects can also be ruled out based on the spread of times the neutrinos arrive. And the fact that they are always too fast, not sometimes too fast and other times too slow.

[TimberWolf]

Brian Cox's reaction:

[scooterscot]

Brian Cox's reaction:

Can you please audio type the comments, I dare not play or Mrs scooter will be all over the keyboard.

[TimberWolf]

Can you please audio type the comments, I dare not play or Mrs scooter will be all over the keyboard.

Use headphones.

Most profound thing in the last 100 years or more if it's right, rewriting physics; the usual. He's got no idea.

[doodab]

Of course, if you were going to pick a particle for faster than light or time travel, one that doesn't interact with other matter much would be most useful.

A matter of time (scuse the pun) before someone starts using them for terrestrial communication as well, i expect.

[d000hg]

He's got no idea.

Asking a well-known physicist about some specialized area of physics is like asking one of us to explain over the phone why some piece of software we never used isn't working... it's a massive field.

[TimberWolf]

Asking a well-known physicist about some specialized area of physics is like asking one of us to explain over the phone why some piece of software we never used isn't working... it's a massive field.

I was only making a little joke. No one has any idea.

[TimberWolf]

Of course, if you were going to pick a particle for faster than light or time travel, one that doesn't interact with other matter much would be most useful.

A matter of time (scuse the pun) before someone starts using them for terrestrial communication as well, i expect.

That's a good idea. No wires, tunnels, cables needed.

[scooterscot]

A matter of time (scuse the pun) before someone starts using them for terrestrial communication as well, i expect.

If that were possible to build neutrino transmitter / receiver, satellites would become obsolete overnight.

[d000hg]

I'm sure it's possible. We can already send and receive them, it's just really, really, really difficult. So were many other things you now consider disposable gadgets.

However, travelling at 0.00001% faster than light isn't any more exciting for communication than travelling AT the speed of light.