September 2011 Archive
Light Speed
Many of you may have seen that in the last week Italian scientists have published experimental results that suggest that some subatomic particles can travel faster than the speed of light. This is a big deal. So scientists are being cautious and efforts are being made to verify the results. This is such a big deal that Brian Cox has said that if the results are correct it will be the biggest scientific discovery for a 100 years. Whilst another physicist has offered to eat his boxer shorts live on TV. The reason why it is such a big deal is that Einstein’s work created a limit on how fast anything can travel in the universe, which is the speed of light. According to his work Continue Reading »