German scientists claim to have broken speed of light.

[davywavy]

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

The 1.21 gigawatts of power are a swine to generate though.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Huh?
Or is this based on the LHC sabotaging itself?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's based on this story, which came up on my newsfeed yesterday: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3303699/We-have-broken-speed-of-light.html

Wierdly, the story now appears to be two years old. I'm actually slightly freaked out by this.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's why I couldn't find anything in the current news...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

But it was current news yesterday! It was! Argh! My head hurts!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

No I haven't, I just checked my compound interest statement.

[akcipitrokulo.livejournal.com]

"According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second."

ARG! That's not what the theory says! It says you need infinite energy to move something, with mass, AT the speed of light, but there is nothing to stop you moving faster than the speed of light if you can work out how to get there!

[(Anonymous)]

You are inciting us to say naughty things about the Germans and we are not going to fall into your heffalump trap.

D

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Am I? how?

[drplokta]

No, that's not what the theory says either. You need an infinite amount of energy to move something with rest mass at the speed of light in a vacuum.

[fried-chicken.livejournal.com]

Nah, they have lightning and clock towers in Germany how had can it be.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it'd be much harder in Switzerland.

"Marty, you've got to hit the wire at the precise moment that the cuckoo pops out."

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

Nice use of black letter in a livejournal entry

Full Marks
(you see what I did there?)

[fried-chicken.livejournal.com]

See that's how devious the Swiss are, they invented the cuckoo clock purely to hamper attempts at changing the course of history.

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

No, that's not what the theory says either.
It says you need to had an infinatly small ass to fit into a pair of size zero jeans at speeds approching the speed of light and even THEN you make nee a vacuum.

Of course I did only speed read that part.

Or more disturbingly

[applez.livejournal.com]

Time-defying Germans would make Phlogiston physics correct!