Showing posts with label speed of light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speed of light. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

Time Travel! Is It Real?

I know what you are thinking: that is not possible at all, and it only happens in movies. Physicists at CERN Institute in Geneva, Switzerland have discovered a way to make particles travel faster than the speed of light. They were able to beam neutrinos, tiny particles that have almost zero mass, 500 miles to a lab in Italy. These particles traveled 60 billionth of a second faster than the speed of light; that may not seem like much, but it is still faster than light. That is insanely fast. This may not seem like much, but it is huge. They just disproved Albert Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. This changes almost everything we thought we knew about the world of physics. Now, what does this have to do with time travel? It has long been accepted that anything that travels faster than light also travels backwards in time. So everyone thought that backwards time travel was impossible because it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light. Now that door may have been opened. Obviously, this is nowhere near perfect and the results still have to be confirmed by other scientists. I don't think anyone actually believes we will be traveling back in time; that just seems too fictional. But who knows, science has proved us wrong before.