Saturday, November 19, 2011

Unlimited surprise

Ta Wan


The science world was shocked when it was proved and proved again 1, 2, 3 (of many) that something can go faster than light.

How is it surprising in an infinite universe?

I always found it odd, as I do with any "definite", that science could be happy with a speed limit on reality. Einstein was happy and unswerving in his assertion that the universe had limits but this means that all who followed, nearly all of what we "know" in science, is now in doubt. The distance to stars and remote planets is now in doubt, the layout of the microscopic world of particles is in doubt. Matter, anti matter, all such conundrums of our times fall apart at the foundations. (All except String Theory which was made stronger by these findings.)

With the Neutrino proving (with over 90% certainty) that it for one can go faster than light, then science blasts down another wall and opens up to the possibility that free will is imaginary. Cause and effect, doing and done, do not need to happen in that order. Effect can bring about cause, done can cause the doership - or more rightly, we can cast aside cause and effect as now we have proof, in the way science likes its proof, that time, space, speed and all that we see as mechanical tick tock, is not.

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