A Neutrino! Who is there? Knock, knock! If it would really be possible to send signals back in time, it would be so cool to send Einstein what modern physicists discovered.
ComandanteJ Well, if it was true, that neutrinos can travel back in time and we would have a system to encode messages using neutrinos, that the receiver also knows and he would see/mesure the neutrinos and decode the message it maybe could be possible. But to say it for sure I know too less about special and especially general relativity, sorry :D
The team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast. The errors were first confirmed by OPERA after a ScienceInsider report, accounting for these two sources of error eliminated the faster-than-light results.
This might be good for either sixty symbols or numberphile. Could you do a video on a Tachyons that have an imaginary number as their mass? And how would the Higgs Boson (which gives particles mass) work with a particle with imaginary mass?
Primus Productions Actually, the Higgs doesn't give particles their mass, it just influences the one they already have. Particles have mass independently of the Higgs, but that mass changes in different ways through interactions with Higgs fields. That's why there are variations in mass between particles, that's the question that Higgs, Brout and Englert set out to answer 50 years ago. Their research culminated in the Higgs mechanism, which describes the process by which the masses of particles are modified, ending up with different masses.
Garrison Pendergrass actually mass = m(i)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) thus if velocity is greater than light, it becomes negative and you take square root of negative number thus get imaginary mass.
It can also be the cause of a tunnel's shape and gravity. While going straight under the earth, particle crosses denser gravity which can affect particles speed in the relation with a surface and gps whose are the curve
Actually the average value was still faster than light. But it was so close that they concluded that it was "consistent" with the speed of light which we know cannot be right because they oscillate.
@justsoundtechno - I think it arives "before we can see it" - at the same level as you can travel faster than sound, thus making you "arive before you can hear it".
I personally don't think that it's anything out of the realm of possibility that a Neutrino may be more likely to quantum tunnel in it's general velocity from time to time. This would basically amount to letting the Neutrino pass through space faster than light, but never actually exceed the speed of light while moving in normal spacetime.
Seán O'Nilbud She's half right. The neutrino has a function in Nature and is the left over force carrier space for the photon associated with the forward arrow of time supporting the asymmetry of the weak force separating the weak force from the strong force and it has a reverse (oscillation) arrow asymmetric twin that moves E in the opposite direction and measures larger than the neutrino just as the neutron measures larger than the proton. The difference in size maintaining E as a constant creates a worm hole because space is relative to time and more time goes back in than came out. Time did not stop during the Mass oscillation rate cycle and the added time must be accounted for and we clearly see the result of it outside of the fine structure constant that first exposed it creating something so important you put in on the wall and worry about it because it shows how little you really know about the field you are considered an expert in. e{a}/t=E BTW... that's why SLAC's E158 weak force asymmetry ratio matched CERN's 2011 worldwide announced "superluminal" muon phase neutrinos @ (v-c)/c=2.48e-5 and created an asymmetry in time of .20e-5 sec in 453.6 miles.
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You are batshit. Here's some of the babbling horseshit you prepared earlier. " I think its a dangerous idea so excuse no new rocket motor equations, just enough to "enlighten" people through understanding the math process and let a few people learn putting out fear and hate only creates hate coming back through a weak link through their blind side and that's not how you disarm the World. History shows brute force and the rampant corruption and greed associated we see controlling money is always short term power, and the people that misuse power ALWAYS think they are the exception and look at the mess they made this time. It's really added up. It's easy enough to control people using their own free will but I agree population control and basic intelligence must go together or war and genocide will decide the numbers. But that's Nature at it's worst and {a} changes what is on the table now big time. It is the only thing that will save the rich from themselves trying to trump Nature. It's a tap for energy that's lets us in-between quantum states into time's reservoir, the strong force. Generate 120 watts on a bike generator for 2 seconds (two coulombs) and split the field in half and reverse it so it repels itself. Now notice you have a force of almost one million tons at a distance of a meter, not mm. So how do you do that? You understand that the weak force is created by Mass in oscillation and how {a} works. And one more thing....never ever put two new field generation magnets in you front pockets or even the same room"
What the heck does my view on politics have to do with the function of the neutrino? And what does your weird “Anti conspiracy experiments” video on youtube show other than you are drunk off your *ss and your house is a disgusting filthy mess and you don't care? Your “Helmet on, off to the shops” video shows what a drunk fool you are putting people’s lives in danger. Buddy you are nothing but a strange drunk out of control emotion waiting for the inevitable to happen and expose the problem with over population at it’s worst. And you are an insult to the people of Ireland.
@Entrepreneur101 E = m? What do your symbols stand for exactly? I assume in your last line you mean F = d(m.v)/dt. How does that support faster than light travel?
Yes, I remember the measurement error had to do with the way satellite GPS coordinates are time corrected. Maybe that's the "extra dimensionality" hogwash they were talking about in this one :-)
Cool question. Off the top of my head, everything. To start with, light-speed is dependent on constants like the permittivity of free space, so they would have to be adjusted. But then we'd get a new value for the charge of a proton. Changing the speed of light would also affect gravitational lensing, which means either changing the strength of gravity or recalculating everything's mass. Even our time and length scales are defined in terms of the speed of light!
Well as soon as the guy said they didn't get the spike of neutrinos three years ahead of the visible light is proof right there that they don't travel faster than the speed of light
Wikipedia says they reported their equipment was not as accurate as they ocne thought. A fiber optic cable was plugged in wrong and an oscillator (?) was going too fast I guess. Too bad.
That only explains one set of results. According to Gavin Wince (search youtube), there were similar results at other collider facilities. A loose fiber optic cable at one facility doesn't simply explain away similar results at other facilities using independent instrumentation.
The response of the shown physicists is the interesting aspect of this video now. The amounts of skepticism, displayed wishes for it to be true, etc. That's what this document can still show us.
A lot of people want to know my personal opinion on the Cern findings. First and foremost, Cern needs to more imperial data to remain current. Then need to upgrade there facilities and computer systems, also there monitors have a low refresh rate (don't let me get started on the contrast ration). Furthermore Cern needs better water to conduct these tests, basic tap water will NOT do the trick. If Cern can afford it, they should be using bottled water, preferably Poland Spring water.
"But in February, the OPERA team also discovered that a loose fiber optic cable had introduced a delay in their timing system that explained the effect."
@Pianoguy32 I don't know if there's a reason why light should be the fastest particle, but there are very good reasons to think that there is a fundamental speed limit which no particle can break, and it appears that light happens to go at that speed, which is why it's called the speed of light. If the neutrinos have broken that limit then it would be big news.
Imaginary doesn't necessarily mean negative, it just means it has an extra dimension. Imaginary numbers are written as A+Bi, for example 2+3i, which can be thought of as a 2-dimensional vector (A,B) or (2,3). 'A' is the real component, so maybe that's the part we can detect. Also, to negate motion (velocity), that just implies it's going the opposite direction along the same line.
@ChungRts Relativistic mass is given by the equation m=1 / sqrt(1 - (v / c)^2) * rest mass. Let v=c. Any number divided by itself is 1. 1^2 is 1. 1-1 is 0. Sqrt(0) is zero, so you end up with m=1/0*rest mass. Therefore, the limit of the rest mass as you approach the speed of light is infinity, so a particle with mass traveling at the speed of light would theoretically have infinite mass. F=ma, so infinite force. E=Fd, so infinite energy. The amount of energy in the universe is finite.
@TheJasmineee It's a simple pun, really. The popular theory is that time stops at the speed of light, and reverses when you exceed it. Since neutrinos are apparently faster than the speed of light, they're always going back in time...
The slowed time for the neutrinos does not try to "keep up" with your time, resulting in a faster than light motion. Remember that in relativity, the idea of a "real time" or "universal time" does not exist. Time is dependent on motion through space and the frame of reference. Although we see time for the neutrino slow down, in the neutrino's perspective, its time is going at normal speed and it is our time that is slowing down. Who is right? Both are right. Time is completely relative.
So. A lesson from Flatland by E A Abbot. If you can find another dimension you can jump over the line and violate the laws of flat distance. Point Set Topology tells us how to combine spaces - by forming the Cartesian product of the multiple spaces. Then consider relativistic 4-space crossed with another with simply a shortened metric allowing the movement of particles between two locations that are shorter than the standard metric...
@Themayseffect there is no light "in general". the visible spectrum still moves at C. the difference you are inquiring about is a result of the wavelength and the frequency, the speed is constant.
the neutrinos from SN1987A arriving in expected time is a good point, although a great point the paper makes about this is, the energy of their experimental neutrinos were about 1000 times more energetic.
Back in the 70's the entity SETH described how science will continue to build instruments to find smaller and smaller units without realizing that we are translating the real NONPHYSICAL thing into terms of what we're looking for; "Each particleized unit of consciousness contains within it inherently the knowledge of all other such particles- for at other levels, again, the units are operating as waves. Basically the units move FASTER THAN LIGHT, slowing down, in your terms, to form matter."
i've watched all of the sixtysymbols videos and i think this one was not only one of the best, but the funniest. i always love some good nerdy physics jokes :P
I read an article some years ago entitled "The Light that Travels Faster than Light" which cited work by two scientists who found that around ten percent of photons undergo a phenomenon they called "tunnelling" which resulted in speeds much faster than light.
(the photons may still be going at the speed of light while bumping into such a small amount of particles/different medium, thus distorting the speed as a whole. Example: If you have to flashlights, and you shine, simultaneously, one of them with the air as the medium and the other with glass as the medium, the one traveling through air would reach an indicated destination before the other.)
@soulsfang No, actually I meant the speed of sound. "Not too long ago" is a subjective phrase, remember that when you read this part, because in the light of how long our species existed, it was the speed "barrier" that had the longest fascination with the strongest consensus. The speed of light has a consensus yes, but there are many scientists who believe it can be exceeded and that we just don't know how yet. ;)
@KarlHeinzofWpg "Like Feynman's analogy of the chessboard, this may be a pawn being promoted into a Queen." It was a Bishop changing it's 'color', but, yes, it's an exciting 'maybe'.
Thanks for making this video on popular request! You guys are GREAT!!! Speaking of videos by request: here's one I'd LOOOOOOOOVE to see: one about the different interpretations of quantum mechanics (Copenhagen, Many Worlds, etc). I can't even begin to conceive how, in order to "solve" many of the weird facts of QM, so many physicists today can agree about something as unimaginably weird as the Many Worlds interpretation.
They explain in this video why it is considered the "speed limit." According to Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, an object gains mass as it accelerates. In order for an object to go beyond the speed of light, it would have to have infinite mass. If an object has infinite mass, then it would need an infinite amount of energy to maintain its acceleration.
If you're ever asked, what's time? You will be 100% correct by answering "space". If you're ever asked, what's space? You will be 100% correct by answering "the intervals in time". Irrelevant to space Δ time being interwoven, both are different forms of E = m ≡ m = E Also, if you're asked, what's space &, or time? You will be 100% correct by answering "fluid-like plasma quarks-gluons, ions-gluons, subatomic particles-gluons, atoms-gluons, positive (±) negative enthalpy & entropy oscillations"
All you have to do in order to get to the speed of light or beyond is by bending space-time around you. Wormholes, while currently and possibly completely impossible to artificially create, are classic examples of bridging space-time by bending it in two places so that an extra-dimensional intersection point is made. Another example would be to bend space-time in a fashion that would allow you to essentially ride it like a surfer would a wave, with a space-time "wave" pushing you from the back and pulling you from the front using basically artificial gravity and anti-gravity (not to be confused with zero gravity).
Did they? They themselves said they were skeptica so it doesn't sound like they rushed to conclusionsl. Sometimes technical mistakes are harder to catch than it looks like.
That is exactly why the photon moves at the speed of light. No mass means that the mass never increases ( I think, anyway ). However, there is disagreement over whether the neutrinio has no mass or very little. If it had no mass, it should travel exactly at the speed of light. If it had some, it should travel below the speed of light. Neither of these scenarios accounts for it to have gone faster than the speed of light, :)
@0hfuzzyu No. Devices are used that time-stamp as the particle hits the detector. I can assure you, everyone in any measurement field (aviation engine parts repair for me) knows full well the delay in computer processing time, and what is needed to get an actual measurement.
Now I'm a bit out of the latest, but perhaps if one were to consider the higgs field as a sort of surface (of perhaps the roiling surface of spacetime itself) and one were to think of this as a surface that due to interaction causes friction (whether higgs induced mass or not) and should some wimps be so "smooth" as to lack the ability to be slowed; perhaps the speed limit of light is less the limit of the speed of particle, but rather the limit of speed allowed by its active surface in contact with its medium. Less active the surface: less interaction. Leading to faster speeds. This implies less that light is not fast but less interactive. Which means that some particles could be even less interactive (like wimps), implying faster possible speeds due to less interaction. Ergo, lightspeed is less a limit of our universe but rather the limit of the speed of light within our medium. Light can be slowed in many ways and can be pulled about gravitationally. The less active a wimp the less gravity can effect it.this we know. Perhaps, it's less to do with classical gravity and more to do with quantum gravity and its force within the smaller coiled higher dimensions. Just food for thought.
@ChungRts c has been derived from Maxwell's equations. Light moves at c because it is an electromagnetic wave and is thus described by Maxwell's equations. If you'd like more info, google "Maxwell's equations," but be warned. It's dizzying mathematics.
Maybe you´re right, if a star "dies" you could still see its light due to the time the light takes to travel from the star to your eyes. For example if the star is 1 light year ( measurement ) from here then we would be able to see it's light for 1 year more after it dies... But my question is: if you travel back in time ( since the sound travels slower ) would the light and sound be sincronized? And how would you use a neutrino to travel in time if it's too small?
It was easy for Einstein to determine that light was the fastest thing due to absence of any other physical object that could contradict the theory. It has now gotten tougher because now we don't have to tell which is fast and which is slow, now we have to tell which is fast and which is faster... This would be a nice challenge for Einstein too!
@allenrobinson2012 but light is a wave/particle to begin with. It doesn't travel in a straight line. I am not even sure how many dimensions it passes through as it travels in a direction. The wave would obviously be longer than the straight line it traveled. I am not sure that we actually "know" the speed of light. I am guessing we screwed up measuring the speed of light. or it is higher than what we thought it was.
NOTE: According to physics, physical law(s) &, or analytical logic the Neutrino(s) v is naturally faster than v/c. But, what's new about that fact? Excluding the pressurized (non-luminescent) E = m within this (d¹, or) 1st dimension, the Neutrino(s) &, or the Antineutrino(s) is the most amazing & interesting E = m in this dimension.
Could a simple explanation of this experiment be that our human measurements of the speed of light are slightly wrong and the actual cosmic speed limit (the speed of light in vacuum) is slightly higher than we thought? Light does slow down when it passes through materials. Ambient space is not a complete vacuum, so maybe the "real" speed of light of slightly higher than thought. Neutrinos barley interact with anything, so maybe they can travel at that slightly higher "real" speed of light.
@docsquee The symbol for light speed is a small 'c'. C stands for "heat capacity". It's how much heat (in Joules) a quantity of a substance can absorb before it's temperature rises one Kelvin. Having a negative heat capacity would be at least as awesome as breaking the speed of light. :-)
The speed of a particle of light can vary, but nothing can go faster. Instead of thinking of the speed of light as an actual object, think of it as a speed limit. It is a value not an object when discussed in physics.
was the experiment made in vacuum and did the particles travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum? 'cause maybe they don't interact with air particles whereas light is slightly influenced by friction.
This somewhat validates my confusion/ignorance about this because I never understood why Einstein thought nothing could travel faster than the speed of light in the first place. Seemed arbitrary, like his cosmological constant.
The guy is right, it is a tachyon, which are emitted also by nuclear reactors. A neutrino after all is a modified electron. It is slightly out of sync with the common geometry of mass. Tachyons have been predicted long ago.
perhaps it merely indicates that light travels at different speeds? neutrinos which are certainly interstellar if not intergalactic means the neutrinos travel at the speed of interstellar or intergalactic light not the speed of light in the solar system ?
So if I understand this correctly, the only way to accelerate something to the speed of light is if the particle has a rest mass of zero. Anything that has mass will encounter "drag" from space-time and will never reach light speed even if you use all the energy in the universe.
Were they just counting with the distance or did they account the effect of gravity so the trajectory would be a slight arc. That might cause such a small increase in speed.
Camden Fitzgerald No. Photons have zero *rest* mass. They still have "effective" or "relativistic" mass from their energy: E=m*c^2. Neutrinos were once believed to also have zero rest mass; the recently discovered phenomenon of neutrino oscillation requires them to have non-zero rest mass and to travel slower than the speed of light. (This has not been experimentally confirmed as far as I know.) Other particles with zero rest mass include gluons and hypothetical gravitons.
How do they know it was the same neutrino? They go mostly undetected, so maybe one neutrino 60 light-nanoseconds ahead of the first detected one slipped past the first detector, and was detected by the second detector?
Isnt the simplest explanation that the speed of light was measured slightly incorrectly in the first place? Even in a "vacuum" there is still small amount of matter that could be interacting with light and slowing it down. Since Neutrinos are neutral and very weakly interacting when they pass through matter, perhaps they are able to travel closer to the theoretical speed of light in ideal circumstances?
There was a consensus in the scientific community, not too long ago, that the speed of sound was the fastest possible speed .... so who knows how fast things can get.
@PensFan109 The speed of neutrinos is already known to be near the speed of light as a first approximation (in the order of a thousandth of a percent different). At that speed the 730km journey takes 0.00243 seconds ie 2.43ms. During that time the Earth will have rotated about 10 millionths of one degree on its own axis, so the effect on aiming isn't very big.
Very nice job :) Does anybody here know the name of the first professor who appeared in this video? He's so quiet and relaxing to listen to: I'd love to see more videos with him.
Light travels at speed of "c" universally, however, the path may distorted by the common phenomenon known as refraction. Now, if photons and neutrinos were placed inside the (vacuumed) Large Hadron Collider, we should expect light to win the race. However, even though the circuit is "vacuumed," this doesn't necessarily mean that there's "nothing" there. That "something" may be particles of some sort that may serve to hinder the pathway of the photon....
@HellsingDemon According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, if you travel faster than light, you could send a signal that arrives before you even sent it. The neutrino is receiving a reply before even arriving to the bar because it travelled faster than light.
@Dirtboy101 The speed of light comes out of the physical properties of the medium (even if that medium is nothing: a vacuum). The speed of light for any medium is defined by 1/sqrt(epsilon*mu) where epsilon is the permittivity (the ease at which electric fields can penetrate the medium) and where mu is the permeability (the degree to which the medium can support a magnetic field). We can empirically measure these two constants very, very accurately and hence find very close approximations of c.
I can't wait to find out the results of this test, and what kind of awesome knew information we could gain if the test came back to show that neutrinos can indeed go faster than light. I really wonder if it would mean that neutrinos could pass -through- black holes since the gravity I think is equal to the speed of light? I don't know. I'm not even sure if neutrinos could be used in that way, but it'd be awesome to say that we know for sure what's happening -inside- of black holes.
Even if we did send neutrinos back in time, maybe the explanation as to why we havent come in contact with the future is that only neutrinos have been sent back in time and not information/people. This means that there could be particles from the future frame, we just don't know it. Or it could be the fact that we havent reached the date where future humans went back in time yet. Could we say that those neutrinos we fired went to the past by a fraction of a second? Amazing. Sounds weird right?
@ItsNotEvenSunny , @MoGaDeX Also they used statistical analysis to marginilize any inteference so even if there were some "false positives" it would be nowhere near enough to overturn the thousands of events they measured that were in very clear correlation with each other.
What was the experiment they were doing originally when they found the results? And how can the scientists even manipulate the neutrino to be slingshot into the accelerator in the first place?
They corrected their results and Neutrinos were slower than light. It was just a problem with their instruments.
+The Artificial Society yep, their gps was calibrated incorrectly...
maybe that was a gravitational wave :)
you "pulling" my leg!
A loose wire...
womp womp
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A Neutrino!
Who is there?
Knock, knock!
If it would really be possible to send signals back in time, it would be so cool to send Einstein what modern physicists discovered.
That is hilarious. +1
But how? If the knocking happens last no one will say who is there and there is no need to say a Neutrino...lol
That would violate causality.
Metagross31 But would he be able to decipher a message sent to him using neutrinos?
ComandanteJ
Well, if it was true, that neutrinos can travel back in time and we would have a system to encode messages using neutrinos, that the receiver also knows and he would see/mesure the neutrinos and decode the message it maybe could be possible.
But to say it for sure I know too less about special and especially general relativity, sorry :D
As soon as I heard of this I wanted a SixtySymbols video immediately! And you delivered!
This is very annoying that there are no updates on videos like this one.
+Kavetrol This. But its not SixtySymbols style to correct or update any of their older videos.
+Kavetrol you do realize they made a follow up video
The team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast. The errors were first confirmed by OPERA after a ScienceInsider report, accounting for these two sources of error eliminated the faster-than-light results.
This might be good for either sixty symbols or numberphile. Could you do a video on a Tachyons that have an imaginary number as their mass? And how would the Higgs Boson (which gives particles mass) work with a particle with imaginary mass?
Primus Productions Actually, the Higgs doesn't give particles their mass, it just influences the one they already have.
Particles have mass independently of the Higgs, but that mass changes in different ways through interactions with Higgs fields. That's why there are variations in mass between particles, that's the question that Higgs, Brout and Englert set out to answer 50 years ago. Their research culminated in the Higgs mechanism, which describes the process by which the masses of particles are modified, ending up with different masses.
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By far the most interesting series on RUclips!
looking forward to next video.
Thanks!
"Two beers please"
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A neutrino walks in to a bar
negative mass= MIND BLOWN!
square root of -mass = MIND SUPER-BLOWN!
I gaped at the fact.
Garrison Pendergrass actually mass = m(i)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) thus if velocity is greater than light, it becomes negative and you take square root of negative number thus get imaginary mass.
kept checking youtube for a sixty symbols video on this. awesome job. glad the professor from the beginning is back too.
This was proven wrong. The reason why they measured the neutrino going faster than light is because of a broken fiber optic cable.
It can also be the cause of a tunnel's shape and gravity. While going straight under the earth, particle crosses denser gravity which can affect particles speed in the relation with a surface and gps whose are the curve
Assholes
Spreading wrong data,the scourage of this planet
Actually the average value was still faster than light. But it was so close that they concluded that it was "consistent" with the speed of light which we know cannot be right because they oscillate.
@justsoundtechno - I think it arives "before we can see it" - at the same level as you can travel faster than sound, thus making you "arive before you can hear it".
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Well it's definitely not a tachyon.
I personally don't think that it's anything out of the realm of possibility that a Neutrino may be more likely to quantum tunnel in it's general velocity from time to time. This would basically amount to letting the Neutrino pass through space faster than light, but never actually exceed the speed of light while moving in normal spacetime.
Seán O'Nilbud She's half right. The neutrino has a function in Nature and is the left over force carrier space for the photon associated with the forward arrow of time supporting the asymmetry of the weak force separating the weak force from the strong force and it has a reverse (oscillation) arrow asymmetric twin that moves E in the opposite direction and measures larger than the neutrino just as the neutron measures larger than the proton.
The difference in size maintaining E as a constant creates a worm hole because space is relative to time and more time goes back in than came out. Time did not stop during the Mass oscillation rate cycle and the added time must be accounted for and we clearly see the result of it outside of the fine structure constant that first exposed it creating something so important you put in on the wall and worry about it because it shows how little you really know about the field you are considered an expert in. e{a}/t=E
BTW... that's why SLAC's E158 weak force asymmetry ratio matched CERN's 2011 worldwide announced "superluminal" muon phase neutrinos @ (v-c)/c=2.48e-5 and created an asymmetry in time of .20e-5 sec in 453.6 miles.
You are batshit. Here's some of the babbling horseshit you prepared earlier.
" I think its a dangerous idea so excuse no new rocket motor equations, just enough to "enlighten" people through understanding the math process and let a few people learn putting out fear and hate only creates hate coming back through a weak link through their blind side and that's not how you disarm the World. History shows brute force and the rampant corruption and greed associated we see controlling money is always short term power, and the people that misuse power ALWAYS think they are the exception and look at the mess they made this time. It's really added up. It's easy enough to control people using their own free will but I agree population control and basic intelligence must go together or war and genocide will decide the numbers. But that's Nature at it's worst and {a} changes what is on the table now big time. It is the only thing that will save the rich from themselves trying to trump Nature. It's a tap for energy that's lets us in-between quantum states into time's reservoir, the strong force. Generate 120 watts on a bike generator for 2 seconds (two coulombs) and split the field in half and reverse it so it repels itself. Now notice you have a force of almost one million tons at a distance of a meter, not mm. So how do you do that? You understand that the weak force is created by Mass in oscillation and how {a} works. And one more thing....never ever put two new field generation magnets in you front pockets or even the same room"
What the heck does my view on politics have to do with the function of the neutrino? And what does your weird “Anti conspiracy experiments” video on youtube show other than you are drunk off your *ss and your house is a disgusting filthy mess and you don't care? Your “Helmet on, off to the shops” video shows what a drunk fool you are putting people’s lives in danger.
Buddy you are nothing but a strange drunk out of control emotion waiting for the inevitable to happen and expose the problem with over population at it’s worst.
And you are an insult to the people of Ireland.
0:21 "Scientists at CERN and in Italy have found that there's a new tree now."
@Entrepreneur101
E = m? What do your symbols stand for exactly?
I assume in your last line you mean F = d(m.v)/dt. How does that support faster than light travel?
Wasn't this debunked just weeks after? It was measured wrong or something.
It was, it was blamed on a faulty cable.
Martin Lamppu Always expend 20% of your budget in cables. LOL
Yes - sixty symbols shouldn't leave misleading and erroneous science lingering on the web.... and all the mumbo jumbo about extra dimensionality.
davet11 I thought it was calculated to be the time it took for the information to travel via satellite. Something that everyone missed.
Yes, I remember the measurement error had to do with the way satellite GPS coordinates are time corrected. Maybe that's the "extra dimensionality" hogwash they were talking about in this one :-)
Cool question. Off the top of my head, everything. To start with, light-speed is dependent on constants like the permittivity of free space, so they would have to be adjusted. But then we'd get a new value for the charge of a proton.
Changing the speed of light would also affect gravitational lensing, which means either changing the strength of gravity or recalculating everything's mass.
Even our time and length scales are defined in terms of the speed of light!
Those are Team Rocket neutrinos.
That was so funny! X.D
This is one of the most exciting times of my life and I'm not even a professional physicist! Hey Sixty Symbols, I'm keeping my eye on you...
Well as soon as the guy said they didn't get the spike of neutrinos three years ahead of the visible light is proof right there that they don't travel faster than the speed of light
True. Thought the same
Wikipedia says they reported their equipment was not as accurate as they ocne thought. A fiber optic cable was plugged in wrong and an oscillator (?) was going too fast I guess. Too bad.
That only explains one set of results. According to Gavin Wince (search youtube), there were similar results at other collider facilities. A loose fiber optic cable at one facility doesn't simply explain away similar results at other facilities using independent instrumentation.
It's painful watching this knowing what they don't know
This was posted three years ago.
What's the update on it? Just an error?
Yup. Apparently a 'loose cable' and one other thing i don't remember
The response of the shown physicists is the interesting aspect of this video now. The amounts of skepticism, displayed wishes for it to be true, etc. That's what this document can still show us.
A lot of people want to know my personal opinion on the Cern findings. First and foremost, Cern needs to more imperial data to remain current. Then need to upgrade there facilities and computer systems, also there monitors have a low refresh rate (don't let me get started on the contrast ration). Furthermore Cern needs better water to conduct these tests, basic tap water will NOT do the trick. If Cern can afford it, they should be using bottled water, preferably Poland Spring water.
john mayer what
john mayer you are joking, correct? Refresh rate? Contrast?? Bottles water??? never mind...you are joking.
heavy water is much better
I hate your music Mr Mayer, but your Cern ideas will rock the world and also your body is a wonderland
"But in February, the OPERA team also discovered that a loose fiber optic cable had introduced a delay in their timing system that explained the effect."
"italian scientists" sounds funny but then we remember that Science was established by one of them.
Nevertheless lets be careful :-)
@Pianoguy32 I don't know if there's a reason why light should be the fastest particle, but there are very good reasons to think that there is a fundamental speed limit which no particle can break, and it appears that light happens to go at that speed, which is why it's called the speed of light. If the neutrinos have broken that limit then it would be big news.
could you please make a video of just professor Copeland talking? he soothes me to no end!
@luvboricha it was a bunch of neutrinos from the year 3048.
Imaginary doesn't necessarily mean negative, it just means it has an extra dimension. Imaginary numbers are written as A+Bi, for example 2+3i, which can be thought of as a 2-dimensional vector (A,B) or (2,3). 'A' is the real component, so maybe that's the part we can detect. Also, to negate motion (velocity), that just implies it's going the opposite direction along the same line.
@ChungRts Relativistic mass is given by the equation m=1 / sqrt(1 - (v / c)^2) * rest mass. Let v=c. Any number divided by itself is 1. 1^2 is 1. 1-1 is 0. Sqrt(0) is zero, so you end up with m=1/0*rest mass. Therefore, the limit of the rest mass as you approach the speed of light is infinity, so a particle with mass traveling at the speed of light would theoretically have infinite mass. F=ma, so infinite force. E=Fd, so infinite energy. The amount of energy in the universe is finite.
Yeah, I saw the video upload date. Would be nice if they responded this video with the update though.
@TheJasmineee It's a simple pun, really. The popular theory is that time stops at the speed of light, and reverses when you exceed it. Since neutrinos are apparently faster than the speed of light, they're always going back in time...
It does change with different mediums, which is called "Refraction" :)
The slowed time for the neutrinos does not try to "keep up" with your time, resulting in a faster than light motion. Remember that in relativity, the idea of a "real time" or "universal time" does not exist. Time is dependent on motion through space and the frame of reference. Although we see time for the neutrino slow down, in the neutrino's perspective, its time is going at normal speed and it is our time that is slowing down. Who is right? Both are right. Time is completely relative.
So. A lesson from Flatland by E A Abbot. If you can find another dimension you can jump over the line and violate the laws of flat distance. Point Set Topology tells us how to combine spaces - by forming the Cartesian product of the multiple spaces. Then consider relativistic 4-space crossed with another with simply a shortened metric allowing the movement of particles between two locations that are shorter than the standard metric...
@Themayseffect there is no light "in general". the visible spectrum still moves at C. the difference you are inquiring about is a result of the wavelength and the frequency, the speed is constant.
Finally. Been waiting for the Proffs to talk about this.
the neutrinos from SN1987A arriving in expected time is a good point, although a great point the paper makes about this is, the energy of their experimental neutrinos were about 1000 times more energetic.
Back in the 70's the entity SETH described how science will continue to build instruments to find smaller and smaller units without realizing that we are translating the real NONPHYSICAL thing into terms of what we're looking for; "Each particleized unit of consciousness contains within it inherently the knowledge of all other such particles- for at other levels, again, the units are operating as waves. Basically the units move FASTER THAN LIGHT, slowing down, in your terms, to form matter."
Calculated from the X17 particles inductive charge radius the neutrinos are 41.30047 GeV/c^2, 44.6012 Gev/c^2 and 48.1657 GeV/c^2
i've watched all of the sixtysymbols videos and i think this one was not only one of the best, but the funniest. i always love some good nerdy physics jokes :P
I read an article some years ago entitled "The Light that Travels Faster than Light" which cited work by two scientists who found that around ten percent of photons undergo a phenomenon they called "tunnelling" which resulted in speeds much faster than light.
(the photons may still be going at the speed of light while bumping into such a small amount of particles/different medium, thus distorting the speed as a whole. Example: If you have to flashlights, and you shine, simultaneously, one of them with the air as the medium and the other with glass as the medium, the one traveling through air would reach an indicated destination before the other.)
@soulsfang No, actually I meant the speed of sound. "Not too long ago" is a subjective phrase, remember that when you read this part, because in the light of how long our species existed, it was the speed "barrier" that had the longest fascination with the strongest consensus. The speed of light has a consensus yes, but there are many scientists who believe it can be exceeded and that we just don't know how yet. ;)
@KarlHeinzofWpg "Like Feynman's analogy of the chessboard, this may be a pawn being promoted into a Queen."
It was a Bishop changing it's 'color', but, yes, it's an exciting 'maybe'.
Thanks for making this video on popular request! You guys are GREAT!!!
Speaking of videos by request: here's one I'd LOOOOOOOOVE to see: one about the different interpretations of quantum mechanics (Copenhagen, Many Worlds, etc). I can't even begin to conceive how, in order to "solve" many of the weird facts of QM, so many physicists today can agree about something as unimaginably weird as the Many Worlds interpretation.
This experiment's result in 2011 has since been shown as an error with a fiber-optic cable. Look up "OPERA experiment" on Wikipedia for the article.
They explain in this video why it is considered the "speed limit." According to Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, an object gains mass as it accelerates. In order for an object to go beyond the speed of light, it would have to have infinite mass. If an object has infinite mass, then it would need an infinite amount of energy to maintain its acceleration.
finally, i have been waiting for this video since the news came out.
If you're ever asked, what's time? You will be 100% correct by answering "space".
If you're ever asked, what's space? You will be 100% correct by answering "the intervals in time". Irrelevant to space Δ time being interwoven, both are different forms of E = m ≡ m = E
Also, if you're asked, what's space &, or time? You will be 100% correct by answering "fluid-like plasma quarks-gluons, ions-gluons, subatomic particles-gluons, atoms-gluons, positive (±) negative enthalpy & entropy oscillations"
@vkotis sorry, I was a bit slower than a neutrino... was away in Australia when the story broke
All you have to do in order to get to the speed of light or beyond is by bending space-time around you. Wormholes, while currently and possibly completely impossible to artificially create, are classic examples of bridging space-time by bending it in two places so that an extra-dimensional intersection point is made. Another example would be to bend space-time in a fashion that would allow you to essentially ride it like a surfer would a wave, with a space-time "wave" pushing you from the back and pulling you from the front using basically artificial gravity and anti-gravity (not to be confused with zero gravity).
Did they? They themselves said they were skeptica so it doesn't sound like they rushed to conclusionsl. Sometimes technical mistakes are harder to catch than it looks like.
That is exactly why the photon moves at the speed of light. No mass means that the mass never increases ( I think, anyway ).
However, there is disagreement over whether the neutrinio has no mass or very little. If it had no mass, it should travel exactly at the speed of light. If it had some, it should travel below the speed of light. Neither of these scenarios accounts for it to have gone faster than the speed of light, :)
@0hfuzzyu No. Devices are used that time-stamp as the particle hits the detector. I can assure you, everyone in any measurement field (aviation engine parts repair for me) knows full well the delay in computer processing time, and what is needed to get an actual measurement.
I agree, but it's pretty obvious that the speed of light is a constant and cannot be surpassed by any means, at least in this universe.
Now I'm a bit out of the latest, but perhaps if one were to consider the higgs field as a sort of surface (of perhaps the roiling surface of spacetime itself) and one were to think of this as a surface that due to interaction causes friction (whether higgs induced mass or not) and should some wimps be so "smooth" as to lack the ability to be slowed; perhaps the speed limit of light is less the limit of the speed of particle, but rather the limit of speed allowed by its active surface in contact with its medium. Less active the surface: less interaction. Leading to faster speeds. This implies less that light is not fast but less interactive. Which means that some particles could be even less interactive (like wimps), implying faster possible speeds due to less interaction. Ergo, lightspeed is less a limit of our universe but rather the limit of the speed of light within our medium. Light can be slowed in many ways and can be pulled about gravitationally. The less active a wimp the less gravity can effect it.this we know. Perhaps, it's less to do with classical gravity and more to do with quantum gravity and its force within the smaller coiled higher dimensions. Just food for thought.
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@ChungRts c has been derived from Maxwell's equations. Light moves at c because it is an electromagnetic wave and is thus described by Maxwell's equations. If you'd like more info, google "Maxwell's equations," but be warned. It's dizzying mathematics.
I've been waiting eagerly for this video ever since I read the news :)
Maybe you´re right, if a star "dies" you could still see its light due to the time the light takes to travel from the star to your eyes. For example if the star is 1 light year ( measurement ) from here then we would be able to see it's light for 1 year more after it dies...
But my question is: if you travel back in time ( since the sound travels slower ) would the light and sound be sincronized? And how would you use a neutrino to travel in time if it's too small?
Hell yeah! I guess Brady was thinking like we were; there should be a 60 Symbols video about this!
@hitachi088 cheers... fixed it
It was easy for Einstein to determine that light was the fastest thing due to absence of any other physical object that could contradict the theory.
It has now gotten tougher because now we don't have to tell which is fast and which is slow, now we have to tell which is fast and which is faster... This would be a nice challenge for Einstein too!
@allenrobinson2012 but light is a wave/particle to begin with. It doesn't travel in a straight line. I am not even sure how many dimensions it passes through as it travels in a direction. The wave would obviously be longer than the straight line it traveled. I am not sure that we actually "know" the speed of light. I am guessing we screwed up measuring the speed of light. or it is higher than what we thought it was.
"IF" this is true what impact will it have other than "we still dont know as much as we think we do"
Are we going to have a video on the possible explination to the faster than light Neutrinos???
NOTE: According to physics, physical law(s) &, or analytical logic the Neutrino(s) v is naturally faster than v/c.
But, what's new about that fact?
Excluding the pressurized (non-luminescent) E = m within this (d¹, or) 1st dimension, the Neutrino(s) &, or the Antineutrino(s) is the most amazing & interesting E = m in this dimension.
Could a simple explanation of this experiment be that our human measurements of the speed of light are slightly wrong and the actual cosmic speed limit (the speed of light in vacuum) is slightly higher than we thought? Light does slow down when it passes through materials. Ambient space is not a complete vacuum, so maybe the "real" speed of light of slightly higher than thought. Neutrinos barley interact with anything, so maybe they can travel at that slightly higher "real" speed of light.
@docsquee The symbol for light speed is a small 'c'.
C stands for "heat capacity". It's how much heat (in Joules) a quantity of a substance can absorb before it's temperature rises one Kelvin.
Having a negative heat capacity would be at least as awesome as breaking the speed of light. :-)
The speed of a particle of light can vary, but nothing can go faster. Instead of thinking of the speed of light as an actual object, think of it as a speed limit. It is a value not an object when discussed in physics.
was the experiment made in vacuum and did the particles travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum? 'cause maybe they don't interact with air particles whereas light is slightly influenced by friction.
This somewhat validates my confusion/ignorance about this because I never understood why Einstein thought nothing could travel faster than the speed of light in the first place.
Seemed arbitrary, like his cosmological constant.
I was wondering if a wormhole could potentially explain this. Not saying it does, but that would be an exciting development I think.
The guy is right, it is a tachyon, which are emitted also by nuclear reactors. A neutrino after all is a modified electron. It is slightly out of sync with the common geometry of mass. Tachyons have been predicted long ago.
Best explanation I've heard heard.
perhaps it merely indicates that light travels at different speeds? neutrinos which are certainly interstellar if not intergalactic means the neutrinos travel at the speed of interstellar or intergalactic light not the speed of light in the solar system ?
So if I understand this correctly, the only way to accelerate something to the speed of light is if the particle has a rest mass of zero. Anything that has mass will encounter "drag" from space-time and will never reach light speed even if you use all the energy in the universe.
Were they just counting with the distance or did they account the effect of gravity so the trajectory would be a slight arc. That might cause such a small increase in speed.
Camden Fitzgerald No. Photons have zero *rest* mass. They still have "effective" or "relativistic" mass from their energy: E=m*c^2.
Neutrinos were once believed to also have zero rest mass; the recently discovered phenomenon of neutrino oscillation requires them to have non-zero rest mass and to travel slower than the speed of light. (This has not been experimentally confirmed as far as I know.)
Other particles with zero rest mass include gluons and hypothetical gravitons.
How do they know it was the same neutrino? They go mostly undetected, so maybe one neutrino 60 light-nanoseconds ahead of the first detected one slipped past the first detector, and was detected by the second detector?
Did they miss the blue police box standing in the corner of the detector room?
4:25 "let's just assume it's true" Unbridled optimism can easily lead you down the wrong path.
Isnt the simplest explanation that the speed of light was measured slightly incorrectly in the first place?
Even in a "vacuum" there is still small amount of matter that could be interacting with light and slowing it down.
Since Neutrinos are neutral and very weakly interacting when they pass through matter, perhaps they are able to travel closer to the theoretical speed of light in ideal circumstances?
How do they know its the same neutrinos that they are measuring as the ones that they fired through the Alps?
There was a consensus in the scientific community, not too long ago, that the speed of sound was the fastest possible speed .... so who knows how fast things can get.
@PensFan109 The speed of neutrinos is already known to be near the speed of light as a first approximation (in the order of a thousandth of a percent different). At that speed the 730km journey takes 0.00243 seconds ie 2.43ms. During that time the Earth will have rotated about 10 millionths of one degree on its own axis, so the effect on aiming isn't very big.
Very nice job :) Does anybody here know the name of the first professor who appeared in this video?
He's so quiet and relaxing to listen to: I'd love to see more videos with him.
Light travels at speed of "c" universally, however, the path may distorted by the common phenomenon known as refraction. Now, if photons and neutrinos were placed inside the (vacuumed) Large Hadron Collider, we should expect light to win the race. However, even though the circuit is "vacuumed," this doesn't necessarily mean that there's "nothing" there. That "something" may be particles of some sort that may serve to hinder the pathway of the photon....
@HellsingDemon According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, if you travel faster than light, you could send a signal that arrives before you even sent it. The neutrino is receiving a reply before even arriving to the bar because it travelled faster than light.
Was waiting for this video! :)
Why not changing the speed of light to the speed of the neutrinos in the equations? What would the implications be?
@Dirtboy101 The speed of light comes out of the physical properties of the medium (even if that medium is nothing: a vacuum). The speed of light for any medium is defined by 1/sqrt(epsilon*mu) where epsilon is the permittivity (the ease at which electric fields can penetrate the medium) and where mu is the permeability (the degree to which the medium can support a magnetic field). We can empirically measure these two constants very, very accurately and hence find very close approximations of c.
I can't wait to find out the results of this test, and what kind of awesome knew information we could gain if the test came back to show that neutrinos can indeed go faster than light. I really wonder if it would mean that neutrinos could pass -through- black holes since the gravity I think is equal to the speed of light? I don't know. I'm not even sure if neutrinos could be used in that way, but it'd be awesome to say that we know for sure what's happening -inside- of black holes.
Even if we did send neutrinos back in time, maybe the explanation as to why we havent come in contact with the future is that only neutrinos have been sent back in time and not information/people. This means that there could be particles from the future frame, we just don't know it. Or it could be the fact that we havent reached the date where future humans went back in time yet. Could we say that those neutrinos we fired went to the past by a fraction of a second? Amazing. Sounds weird right?
May I ask just how accurately the speed of light can currently be measured?
@ItsNotEvenSunny , @MoGaDeX Also they used statistical analysis to marginilize any inteference so even if there were some "false positives" it would be nowhere near enough to overturn the thousands of events they measured that were in very clear correlation with each other.
What was the experiment they were doing originally when they found the results? And how can the scientists even manipulate the neutrino to be slingshot into the accelerator in the first place?