My favorite example is the car with a bb gun attached to it: * with the car stationary you fire a bb at a target 100' away. Let's say it takes 1 second to reach the target.
* with the car moving at 50'/sec you fire a bb at the target after 1sec. To make it easy we'd all agree that the bb will take less than a second to arrive. I.e. less than in the first case. And, of course, this is true for any object fired from the car. Except light! For some reason nature adjusts time and space so that the light ALWAYS arrives in 1 second. In other words "speed" is just distance traveled over time, so the faster you travel, the more nature adjusts YOUR time and space relative to everyone else's. Nature shrinks you and slows down your time relative to others so that you ALWAYS arrive on time. Weird. But convenient. And that observation will never stop being true. We may have found an exception, but no matter what you call the observations (a "theory") they will never not be true. The only possibility is that they become part of a broader set of understanding. So I'm fascinated, but more by the people who claim that science doesn't work because theories can be proven wrong. On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > The plot thickens as the proposed revised experiment yields the same results: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html?wprss= > > They didn't mention the GPS relativity error factor that had been > discussed in an earlier thread here but I'd guess that they had also > taken that into account since they were killing off other > possibilities. > > I'm intrigued. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
