Faster than the speed of light - so what?

[MarillionFan]

Anything is possible within the matrix.

[doodab]

Similarly, all "faster than light" neutrinos could offer is the ability to see that something has happened earlier. But you could not detect the event before the event actually occured.

Regular light enables you to see things that have happened earlier.

[suityou01]

Firstly time is not constant. Time moves at different rates depending on where you are in space. Einsteins theory of relativity hinged on the point that the faster you travel, the slower time goes.

So in the 1960s they did an experiment. They synchronised two atomic clocks, kept one on the ground and put one in a plane going very fast. Then after the plane had flown a bit they then compared the atomic clocks. The one of the ground was ahead. Not by much, but ahead.

So as you approach the universal speed limit (C) time slows down "relative" to another part of space travelling more slowly. In theory at the speed of light time would stand still for you.

So if you had a wormhole, with one end moving at the speed of light, the other end relatively still and you left that structure alone for 10 years, the fast end would not age and the slow end would. You enter the worm hole and pop out the other side and hey presto you've gone back 10 years relative to where you started.

So as approaching the speed of light slows time to 0, moving faster than the speed of light sends time backwards. The snag is that a human could not survive the trip as at the speed of light you would weigh an infinite amount and you would be the same size as an electron, and your poor old ticker would have given out long before you got anywhere near the speed of light.

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[russell]

Firstly time is not constant. Time moves at different rates depending on where you are in space. Einsteins theory of relativity hinged on the point that the faster you travel, the slower time goes.

So in the 1960s they did an experiment. They synchronised two atomic clocks, kept one on the ground and put one in a plane going very fast. Then after the plane had flown a bit they then compared the atomic clocks. The one of the ground was ahead. Not by much, but ahead.

So as you approach the universal speed limit (C) time slows down "relative" to another part of space travelling more slowly. In theory at the speed of light time would stand still for you.

So if you had a wormhole, with one end moving at the speed of light, the other end relatively still and you left that structure alone for 10 years, the fast end would not age and the slow end would. You enter the worm hole and pop out the other side and hey presto you've gone back 10 years relative to where you started.

So as approaching the speed of light slows time to 0, moving fast than the speed of light sends time backwards. The snag is that a human could not survive the trip as at the speed of light you would weigh an infinite amount and you would be the same size as an electron, and your poor old ticker would have given out long before you got anywhere near the speed of light.

For more info go and read Wikipedia and try and pass of as educated like I did.

FTFY

[suityou01]

FTFY

I am a tad miffed there Rustle. I take an interest in such things. I have read "A brief history of time", and also Richard Feynmans biography which both cover this in some detail.

Wikipedia, you utter knob.

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[russell]

I am a tad miffed there Rustle. I take an interest in such things. I have read "A brief history of time", and also Richard Feynmans biography which both cover this in some detail.

Wikipedia, you utter knob.

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Just a joke, lighten up!

[suityou01]

Just a joke, lighten up!

Sorry. Hanging out of my arse today. Far too much red wine last night.

[russell]

Sorry. Hanging out of my arse today. Far too much red wine last night.

l I had a few Peronis but not too many, so only a Level 3 hangover (out of 10).

[chef]

Ok, so after a slight diversion off topic what I understand is that the speed of light used to be the known limit, however, with this neutrino break through it opens up the theory to the possibility that time travel backwards is possible at the atomic level and that also if neutrino's could be harnessed then satellite and possibly other tech could be made redundant by the reasoning that neutrino get there faster and thus in the world of data communication, faster is better.

Any other applications or changing of theories if FTL speed is indisputably proved possible?

[MarillionFan]

Sorry. Hanging out of my arse today. Far too much red wine last night.

l I had a few Peronis but not too many, so only a Level 3 hangover (out of 10).

Get a room you couple of alcoholic lightweights. and get back on subject.