Speed of light (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, November 18, 2011, 21:59 (4754 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Must stink to have a career in theoretical science when it looks like your theories could possibly come tumbling down around your ears. Even if they do succeed in multiple cases of independent verification, I think this is something that will not be truly accepted for a generation at least. People are too hung up on the speed of light being constant. It's kind of like traditional Evolution. You would basically have to have a video-taped luncheon interview with God or Jabba the Hutt explaining how he did it if you wanted to change anyone's opinion, and even then they would try to throw it out because they didn't witness the interview first hand.

Another view of the new speed of light findings:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/17/8866223-faster-than-light-neutrinos-pas...