E = MC Squared = Baloney?
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 6:47PM
A 'Law of Physics' is only so if it cannot be disproven. In the 1920's Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity which has stood its ground for nearly 100 years. Scientists in Switzerland's CERN nuclear laboratory seem to have made particles smaller than atoms travel faster than light... or have they?
Einstein pronounced the apparently unshakeable law that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in the 1920’s. The Theory of Relativity was pronounced a ‘Law of Physics’ and was held as a major law of how the universe works. Science is about proof, and if you can disprove something you lose its certainty.
The particle accelerators at CERN in Switzerland are basically huge circular tubes round which particles smaller than an atom are fired. Particles called Neutrinos were fired around it and they travelled faster than the speed of light. According to Einstein this would be impossible
