Defying known Physics and other headlines...

Today marked the date of a conference, not any conference, but a conference in which many leading scientists where called in to scrutinize findings collected from CERN. These findings could potentially redefine modern day physics as we know it.

So I'm no Physicist, and I know if I say anything wrong my best friend who is a physicist will tell me off :P, but from what I've heard this is a BIG deal.
The Research: Something along the lines of the OPERA team have managed to send a beam of particles four hundred miles at a speed which is roughly six-billionths of a second faster than light. Now this may seem to be a stupidly small amount but they have repeated the experiment thousands of times and have found the same result each time. Now the speed of light is supposedly the fastest thing in the universe and if this is true this totally messes up with scientists ideas of time and causality. Now this is where brains can go crazy, things such as warp speed and time travel could even be the future of this.

But before we get ahead of ourselves, the scientists behind this have opened up this information with a tagline, to take the findings with a note of caution. Clearly this unexpected result has taken them by surprise too and they've all been trying to find any systematic errors or other mistakes in their research. This is one of the reasons the findings have been made public, they haven't been able to find any thing wrong so they've opened it up to the scrutiny of all the other scientists out there. If however, they find that there is nothing wrong, this could mean big changes for the way in which physics today is seen in the future.

Now I know some of you may not be big scientists so I'll skim over the BBC news headlines this evening and see what else I can find...
- 'UARS satellite return expected later', well it was meant to arrive today but seems like it could be coming in as late as tomorrow morning around 3 am GMT.
- 'First Irish case of death by spontaneous combustion', well they're still looking into it so...
....aannnnd there's not much else, a lot of things to do with the U.N and the struggles in the Middle East. Also some stuff to do with Nurofen Plus (Ibuprofen) being contaminated with anti psychotic medicene.

In family related headlines, my nephew has been named. Baby Boy is now being called Adam :D

Hope that everyone is okay, especially those we haven't heard from in a while,
for the rest of the week, dftba

Sim x