Hi all,
I would like to know what impact you all think yesterday's announcement by CERN has on the theology of Creationism? I am not partisan in any way, I keep an open mind on origins theology .. this is just thrown out there to people smarter than me to give their opinion on the ramifications (if any) of this. My understanding is that the Special Theory of Relativity relies rather heavily on a constant speed of light, and much of modern day physics relies on that theory to work. What is the impact on Creationism I wonder? If this turns out to be true (and that's up for debate and further experimentation at the moment) then is this a good thing or a bad thing for Creationism?
Speed of light 'broken' at CERN, scientists claim
It was Albert Einstein, no less, who proposed more than 100 years ago that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light.
But last night it emerged that the man who laid the foundations for the laws of nature may have been wrong.
The science world was left in shock when workers at the worlds largest physics lab announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light
If the findings are proven to be accurate, they would overturn one of the pillars of the Standard Model of physics, which explains the way the universe and everything within it works.
Einsteins theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.
The results have so astounded researchers that American and Japanese scientists have been asked to verify the results before they are confirmed as a discovery.
(Source: The Telegraph Online .. I can't post links yet otherwise I would credit the site properly!)
I would like to know what impact you all think yesterday's announcement by CERN has on the theology of Creationism? I am not partisan in any way, I keep an open mind on origins theology .. this is just thrown out there to people smarter than me to give their opinion on the ramifications (if any) of this. My understanding is that the Special Theory of Relativity relies rather heavily on a constant speed of light, and much of modern day physics relies on that theory to work. What is the impact on Creationism I wonder? If this turns out to be true (and that's up for debate and further experimentation at the moment) then is this a good thing or a bad thing for Creationism?
Speed of light 'broken' at CERN, scientists claim
It was Albert Einstein, no less, who proposed more than 100 years ago that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light.
But last night it emerged that the man who laid the foundations for the laws of nature may have been wrong.
The science world was left in shock when workers at the worlds largest physics lab announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light
If the findings are proven to be accurate, they would overturn one of the pillars of the Standard Model of physics, which explains the way the universe and everything within it works.
Einsteins theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.
The results have so astounded researchers that American and Japanese scientists have been asked to verify the results before they are confirmed as a discovery.
(Source: The Telegraph Online .. I can't post links yet otherwise I would credit the site properly!)
