Thursday, February 16, 2012

Cherished belief 2

Recently, there's been a study on the speed of a Neutrino.
It has been demonstrated in one experiment, several times, that a neutrino would exceed the speed of light. Not by much.. but just enough to record.
Now, to the common folk... this isn't much.
But to a scientist, this is huge!
I mean huge huge!
This would mean Einstein was wrong. Very very wrong in fact.
Every known physical science to date would have to be reworked and "re-calibrated", and even some re-invented.
This would be a shift in paradigm unlike any other.

This can be akin to the shift of the creation story over evolution and abiogenesis. Scientist would, however, not try to "cover up" or "suppress" the truth of it; no matter how inconvenient, and yes.. this is a huge inconvenience. They would not rally against it keep it from being taught in school because it wouldn't fit into the model of "the in group" of scientist.

Would the masses of scientist switch over to "faster than light neutrino" group if proven correct? Yes.
Would a small minority hold to current model of relative physics by Einstein, despite the proof? Yes.
Would they be wrong to do so? NO

Here's the reason why. It isn't wrong to think that a mistake was made in the validation of a sort, they can in fact continue to try to disprove the theory as long as they want, but to be intellectually honest, every time they do, and they get the exact same result, it'll go to the favor of the opposition. They then have to redouble their efforts to not only prove their opponents wrong, but their own previous efforts wrong.
It is a daunting task, but has been done in the past.

Now, this is why I laugh at the ID theorist, they have never made a real effort to do so, and the feeble attempts have been rejected and they cry out persecution.
If ID was a serious shift in paradigm, it would be much like the Neutrino exceeding the speed of light issue. The entire community of science would be in an uproar....

Here's the problem though... bout 10 years or so ago, there was a supernova, who's light finally hit us after some thousand years of travel, simultaneously set off neutrino detectors in japan the same time as the visual recordings took pictures of it occurring.
If indeed neutrinos traveled faster than photons, the bombardment of neutrinos would have been some 6 years earlier at those distances. It wasn't.
So, to explain this.. there has to be a slowing agent over time on the neutrino but not photons... which wouldn't make much sense. Or... that the measurements of that incident was wrong... which wouldn't make much sense either.

Currently the experiment results does not match observable behaviors. This is one of the humps that needs to be explained before the theory is to be believed.
If the explanation are to be accurate and testable, then I would gladly let go of the most cherished belief of Eisenstein relative physics. As is the case of knowledge. A new theory must be placed, since faster than light is proven.. Einstein's theory would have to be reworked from the ground up. The final product, probably nothing resembling it. Needless to say,
I will give up this cherished belief if proven wrong.

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