Laws of Physics being overturned!? "She'll make point five past lightspeed."

In news that should excite sci-fi fans all over the world, scientists at CERN have announced that they have recorded sub-atomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light.

Spokesman for the researchers, Antonio Ereditato, said that measurements taken over the course of three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.

 

"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."

If their work is confirmed, it could shake the foundations of physics as we know it, overturning Einsteins 1905 theory of special relativity, which states that the speed of light is a 'constant,' and that nothing can travel faster.

"I just don't want to think of the implications," said Ereditato. "We are scientists and work with what we know."

60 nanoseconds may not sound like much (and it isn't) but it's the fact that it's possible that is so astonishing.
Many different works of science fiction are based on the possibility of exceeding the speed of light, and acheiving either time-travel or faster-than-light (FTL) travel.
Lets just hope if we do get there, we don't encounter Goa'uld, or Reapers. 

via SMH.com.au

 

This Carpet is Tearing Apart the Space-Time Continuum

Carpet is... carpet. It's nothing special, despite recent carpet advertisements in which models apparently wear it instead of clothes. Although I thought it was an actual fashion show, given my pathetic knowledge of fashion. At the end of the ad, I was like, whoa, that was carpet?! I couldn't tell.

My lack of fashion-sense aside, this is not normal carpet. It looks as though someone began to think about dividing by zero when they were making it. Or there are holes in the very fabric of time and space, and someone thought they'd try and hide them by putting a carpet over the top.

This carpet was snapped at a local game store, where the Redditor avoided being sucked into the resultant black hole just long enough to take a photo.
His whereabouts are currently unknown.

Although that's just cause I don't know where he lives. Probably in America somewhere.

via Gizmodo