"It is a tiny difference," said Ereditato, who also works at Berne University in Switzerland, "but conceptually it is incredibly important. The finding is so startling that, for the moment, everybody should be very prudent."Yes, chill out, eggheads.
If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.
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If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.
ReplyDeleteHuman stupidity is faster, he typed sourly.
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Super-Dense Objects Editor:
ReplyDeleteOK, now you've gone so fast you've strayed into metaphysics.
HOW CAN YOU NOT BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS?!!!!! I'm going to meet martians in my hovercar, bitches!!!!
ReplyDeleteMeh, What Else is New? Editor:
ReplyDeleteWe are much too old & wise ever to be excited about anything we've read in the paper.