Sunday, October 9, 2011

The Possibility of Achieving Faster than the Speed of Light

For almost a century, the speed of light is a renowned and acknowledged speed limit from special relativity. Although the math works out, only now have we as human beings are able to verify this almost century old "fact." Intriguing enough, due to the recent CERN announcement that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light, this fact may be under scrutiny.
If we assume that everything checks out from error analysis and from replicated experiments, this may not call for a total reorganization for general relativity. Present quantum theories speculate that at the scale of smaller than atoms, there are wormholes at the sizes of a "billion trillion trillionth" of a centimeter across.
Unlike light, and other electromagnetic radiation from the electromagnetic spectrum, neutrinos actually have mass (shown here). However, because the mass is almost significant to the point where neutrinos are able to pass through Earth (and even your own body, as every second "tens of thousands of neutrinos" actually do so) without interacting with most of the matter on or within Earth, it may be possible for neutrinos to interact with the tiny micro-microscopic wormholes. Common concepts of wormholes are that it is not just able to transport objects instantaneously over any distance, but it is also able to transport objects backwards or forwards into time. Therefore some question that if neutrinos do have the capability of traveling through wormholes, does that mean they are capable of traveling through time as well. Unfortunately for those who believe in time travel in the sense of going forwards or backwards in time, wormholes may not be the answer they are looking for. Current theories from special relativity speculate that it is impossible to use a wormhole like a time machine. The video here shows why such a thing is predicted to not exist.


Although quantum theory has been criticized for being unable to justify numerous phenomenons in the cosmos, if neutrinos do travel through wormholes theorized by quantum theory, it may be a strong support to some portions of quantum theory. The scientific implications are unknown to me, but perhaps this may lead to a revolution where quantum theory and Einstein's theory of relativity may be united into one theory that may be able to encompass a larger understanding of the universe than our present scientific paradigm. Unfortunately due to my lack of knowledge of the unification process and problems of quantum theory and general relativity, I am unable to prove more information. However, the prospects of physics may be looking better than ever. The possibilities of justifying actual wormhole existence may be close. That may lead to a new way of understanding the universe and its almost limitless phenomenons. 

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