Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Say it isn't so!

I'm in mourning.  Apparently it's been proven once and for all that time travel isn't possible.  A team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology claims to have measured the speed of a single photon (the smallest unit of light) and found that it can't travel faster than constant c (which represents the speed of light in a vacuum).  This confirms Einstein's views that "nothing can travel faster than light" and therefore, "an effect cannot occur before its cause."

I guess I can still hope for the discovery of wormholes that might allow me to travel quickly to far parts of the universe.  But that just isn't the same.L

2 comments:

  1. You've got to stop reading those Connie Willis novels.

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