Was Einstein wrong about E=MC2?

[Tomasso]

Neutrinos caught speeding at Cern



While it's a half century too late to wipe the smug look off Al's face, his reputation would surely be diminished.

 

[dhermann1]

They're only saying that this was the measurement they got with their instruments. They want to see the results reproduced before they get too excited. I don't think Einstein's reputation will suffer too badly. It took them the better part of a century to find this loophole. Doesn't diminish the totality of his work.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Why would it affect his reputation at all? That's not how science works …

bk

 

[Atticus Finch]

Well there you go. No wonder I could never understand his theory. I always thought those Moun-Neutrinos-thingies should go faster than he said they would.

AF

 

[LoveMyHats2]

The things we do not know, are still not going to be totally discovered in our life time. Take the speed of light, and travel. We have nothing to measure accurately for setting courses and knowing positions if you could actually travel at the speed of light, as time is no longer coming into play per what we really know, no one has gone there, yet! Many great minds work on theories. Who really knows what is or is not correct?

 

[C-dot]

Many great minds work on theories. Who really knows what is or is not correct?

Exactly, and even if their theories are disproved, it doesn't usually affect their reputation as a great mind. Take Freud or the Flat Earth theory for example: You've got to start somewhere.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Exactly, and even if their theories are disproved, it doesn't usually affect their reputation as a great mind. Take Freud or the Flat Earth theory for example: You've got to start somewhere.

Can you imagine going back in time, say even 150 years and bringing someone to this exact time? They would maybe have a heart attack if you put them in a Ferrari for a spin out on the expressway doing 190 ! The advances we have are amazing. Yet we still cannot totally create life, cannot raise the dead, time travel in itself is not here, so you know it would not happen, but even electricity itself. There are so many things we have not yet discovered. It is all very interesting to say the least.

One very stupid yet intense thing no one can give a total answer to is like a folk lure saying; "what came first, the chicken or the egg"? We do not really know.

What we do know it that...for me...I like my Chicken extra crispy, and my Eggs done Sunny Side Up!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Well there you go. No wonder I could never understand his theory. I always thought those Moun-Neutrinos-thingies should go faster than he said they would.

AF

Most things anyone does regarding an experiment uses a "control" model to help base findings on. I have to ask myself, what was used for the findings presented? If things could really travel that fast, what was used to record the speed, and what provides the proof it was accurate?

In reality, I was given a speeding ticket one time, yes I was speeding in excess of 140 MPH on a road no one else was on at 3 am in Ohio a few years ago, well, the Cop was there. He claims his radar gun had me at 172 MPH. I am sure I was not going that fast, but that is what his radar had me at and aside from the ticket, I was arrested, had my car towed and all that. Only in court was I able to prove I was not going that fast, my point being not all gizmo's that are used to measure speeds are accurate.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Neutrinos caught speeding at Cern



While it's a half century too late to wipe the smug look off Al's face, his reputation would surely be diminished.

I think this was a great man, a good person and really, I even like how he wore his hair! It was "him",and he was an original.