BBC Documentary Faster than the speed of light

[Derkein]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016bys2

Excellent non-technical and very level headed documentary on the recent experiment at Cern which appeared to have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light which has raised such a buzz here and wordwide..

This documentary is highly informative on many of the main issues without requiring even an O level in physics or maths.

An interesting side point from one of the possible explanations (neutrinos went through 'hyperspace/wormhole) is that if that is so, it may be possible to calculate the curvature of our universe from the difference. It wont accurate as we dont know if the universe is actually a shere, a hypersphere, or a flat(ish) brane, let alone a parabolic brane or one of the more exotic shapes.
... Anybody fancy doing some of the calculations? hehehe
.. and you don't need to understand a word of that to get a great deal from this documentary.

Highly recommended viewing for all.

[rafromca]

Sadly I wasn't able to access this from my part of the world. If you see another link let me know. It looks interesting

[Derkein]

Hi rafrimca
this might help. I have used these sort of things to access US sites from other countries when they only allow US ISP access.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/access-blo ... y-servers/

Regards
DK

[Anthony Peake]

DK. I agree, an excellent programme and one well worth watching. Level headed and sensible.

By the way, E.P. Thompson was a lecturer at Warwick when I was there in the early 1970's.

[Black Label]

Yes that was my take on the show too Anthony. An even handed approach, neither getting too carried away with the implications (though covering them) or resorting to comedic cynisism.

The implications are of course that every instant of 'you' that 'you' experience is a slightly different 'you' from the last instant, all those 'you's' are still there and there are many other 'you's' doing other things in alternate timelines.

This is what the maths says but I'm not sure the British public may be too keen on the idea.

[jobsaboba]

Yes that was my take on the show too Anthony. An even handed approach, neither getting too carried away with the implications (though covering them) or resorting to comedic cynisism.

The implications are of course that every instant of 'you' that 'you' experience is a slightly different 'you' from the last instant, all those 'you's' are still there and there are many other 'you's' doing other things in alternate timelines.

This is what the maths says but I'm not sure the British public may be too keen on the idea.

http://youtu.be/TQPYY00Bvhc ...

shifting through the different yous..... an explanation

jobs

[Derkein]

Yes that was my take on the show too Anthony. An even handed approach, neither getting too carried away with the implications (though covering them) or resorting to comedic cynisism.

The implications are of course that every instant of 'you' that 'you' experience is a slightly different 'you' from the last instant, all those 'you's' are still there and there are many other 'you's' doing other things in alternate timelines.

This is what the maths says but I'm not sure the British public may be too keen on the idea.

I must disagree that what you state is what the math says.
The Math does not differentiate between one universe changing and myriad of static universes....
but neither does it generally differentiate between directions in time...
but nature is usually economical, if many varied, and entire universes for the odd temporary visit is very wasteful

Of course each millisecond each you is a new one. Cells are created, die and are dropped off. The connections and capacitance's in the brain change at even faster rates, and we each interact with a billion new molecules in our environment in each instant.
... but that is a far cry from a single consciousness creating or jumping to a new 'eternity' a billion times a second.

.. nor does either view increase or decrease the wonder of what we are and what we inhabit.