6 Scientific Discoveries That Laugh in the Face of Physics (Cracked, obviously)

http://www.cracked.com/article_19668_6-scientific-discoveries-that-laugh-in-face-physics.html

Thoughts?

I think the uranium one is pretty cool.

cracked is soo awesome

I loath the fact that I will likely never live to experience deep space exploration or time travel(if it's poosible).

I loath the fact that I will likely never live to experience deep space exploration or time travel(if it's poosible).

KH-mixerX

awesome article, im bookmarking this for tomorrow... because i know im gonna need a full day to research all the anomolies explained.

It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.Vangaurdius

It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.Vangaurdius

My thinking as well. Wasn't exactly awful but they really shouldn't blame the integrity of information for their own gap of comprehension.

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I loath the fact that I will likely never live to experience deep space exploration or time travel(if it's poosible).

ZumaJones07

The OPERA experiment needs to be verified more than once. Remember Cold Fusion? Well no one else could do it.DeX2010

[QUOTE="DeX2010"]The OPERA experiment needs to be verified more than once. Remember Cold Fusion? Well no one else could do it.Nibroc420

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="DeX2010"]The OPERA experiment needs to be verified more than once. Remember Cold Fusion? Well no one else could do it.DeX2010

The results have been replicated. They've been going through everything that could have possibly happened, and trying to account for any errors.
However, they have done the experiment again, and they have gotten the same result.

Again, if you had educated yourself on the topic prior to simply laughing at it and making things up... Well you'd look a LOT less stupid and arrogant.

I won't even pretend I understand half of what I read, but that was really interesting. And that OPERA thing was super cool. I'm going to have to do some more research on that one.

It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.Vangaurdius

Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly

For this experiment they had to factor in everything from the rotation of the earth to the lag induced in fiber-optic and copper cables. There are a ton of variables here, but after 6 months of cross checking they believe they have all their bases covered.

Since no theoretical model really fits this phenomenon, they are waiting for two other labs, Fermilab in US and the T2K experiment in Japan to confirm or refute these results with their own experiements. Meanwhile the Borexino and Icarus experiments will check OPERA's results this year. Interesting stuff.

That was a p. awful article.

[QUOTE="Vangaurdius"]It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.Crokodile69

[QUOTE="DeX2010"][QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Actually, if you looked it up, you'd see that they conducted the experiment multiple times with the same result.Nibroc420

The results have not been replicated as of yet. And the Theories of Relativity are very broad and there is so much evidence for them. But they are not perfect, Einstein even predicted that the theories break down beyond the event horizon of a black hole.

The results have been replicated. They've been going through everything that could have possibly happened, and trying to account for any errors.
However, they have done the experiment again, and they have gotten the same result.

Again, if you had educated yourself on the topic prior to simply laughing at it and making things up... Well you'd look a LOT less stupid and arrogant.

It could very well be to do with the movement of particles from 1 place to another, difference being affected by the distance between the 2 and the mass in between.

It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.Vangaurdius

Everyone who isn't a physicist or doesn't care enough to sit and read physic textbooks is obviously an idiot. Anyone can obtain knowledge. Doesn't make you smart...

The results have been replicated. They've been going through everything that could have possibly happened, and trying to account for any errors.However, they have done the experiment again, and they have gotten the same result.Again, if you had educated yourself on the topic prior to simply laughing at it and making things up... Well you'd look a LOT less stupid and arrogant.Nibroc420

[QUOTE="Vangaurdius"]It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.SpartanMSU

Everyone who isn't a physicist or doesn't care enough to sit and read physic textbooks is obviously an idiot.

No, just the ones that don't understand the sh!t they write articles about.

[QUOTE="ZumaJones07"][QUOTE="KH-mixerX"]

I loath the fact that I will likely never live to experience deep space exploration or time travel(if it's poosible).

DeX2010

I always felt like time travel was like feedback. If you hold up a microphone next to the speaker it is connected to, it blows. Why would time not be the same way? Like you open a portal that closes instantly.

Either that, or, and I may be misunderstanding this, doesn't string theory have a dimension that accounts for this? Like, we can go back in time and alter a reality, but it leaves the other future in tact? If I were to BS this, I'd say that you can't live in that timeline, but you can go back and alter it and everything would act accordingly in response but that timeline is just based off of that branch, so its impossible to change the timeline we're in but we can make a new one if we choose to.

Also, relativitymakes travel to the future possible because its relative. Go fast enough or stand next to something massive enough and time, relatively, appears to speed up outside of your perception.

Why do some people get so bent out of shape when you challenge Einstien? I'm no physicist, not even close, but c'mon. That was damn near 70 years ago. Science moves forward, not stands still.

I'm not saying he's flat out wrong, but the possibility was never unlikely that light was as fast as it got. Just...how the hell could we possibly percieve it until we can ballpark what we're looking for? And time travel? Somehow...don't think it would wind up working out the way people think it would.

[QUOTE="Vangaurdius"]It should be renamed "6 Scientific Discoveries that According to Idiots with No Knowledge of the Subject Matter Laugh in the Face of Physics Even Though They Actually Don't." This was an awful article.SpartanMSU

Everyone who isn't a physicist or doesn't care enough to sit and read physic textbooks is obviously an idiot. Anyone can obtain knowledge. Doesn't make you smart...

We should shoot neutrinos at aliens. That'll show'em