scifi=1, so-called "reality"=0 (a.k.a. E=MC-YA-L8R)

[tzikeh]

If this is true, then we get to do the point-and-mock dance at all of the scientists who have ever said, "We *begrudgingly* allow that science fiction *may* have predicted *some* discoveries and inventions, but THIS ONE THING will never happen. It's a fixed fact of the universe. Write all the stories you want, but they will remain fiction forever. It's immutable and absolutely finite and you are all n00bs if you think otherwise."

YOU ARE COMPLETELY PWNED, BEGRUDGING SCIENTISTS - GET OUT OF OUR WAY! LUSERS!!

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!

*travels back in time*

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

Ooooh!!!!! *bounces* I hope it's true!!! I love it when science is flipped on it's head and we have to start all over and build back up and explore new and awesome and sometimes scary possibilities. :D

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Well, that's just neat!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Where to? Anywhere at all, or within the "indoor plumbing" range?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I love that too! And the hard-and-fastest rule of them all - HAH!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Man, I hope it's not a fluke.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Elizabethan England first (because, hello...Shakespearean, here), then...EVERYWHERE!

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

YES! I love that best of all. The one immutable law. The one that could never, ever be broken. *giggles madly* heh

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I always will have known we would have do it. Or something.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think this is true. And would kind of explain the speed of light thing.

"Dude, this is boring. Let's change the basic laws of relativity."

"Whoa, dude, that's brilliant. Maybe I should put a clown in charge of that big country on that little planet full of monkey people."

"Been there, done that."

"Bummer."

[dargie.livejournal.com]

No roolz! No roolz! I'm going to go have my cake and eat it too.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Dude!

\o/

Now, if only teleportation would come into being, so I never have to get on a freaking plane again as long as I live. Not that I don't love planes, but... OW.

[lumenara.livejournal.com]

Didn't something similar happen a few years back? I know there was a big fuss about teleportation, but it was also at the particle physics level...

I wanted to be a physicist, once.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Great news! Provided you're a sub-atomic particle, that is!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, okay - *I'm* not going to be time-travelling, but if they've proven the law WRONG, that's great-big-giant-fuck-off-ginormous news for science! SCIENCE, I TELL YOU!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

r00lz are for n00bs We can have our cake and eat it too because after we eat it we can GO BACKWARDS IN TIME TO BEFORE WE ATE IT and there is our CAKE!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

See, and here I am thinking about the entirety of modern science having to be rethought - WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE VERB TENSES?!

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

*admires your cute little priorities*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only time travel were currently a viable option, that clown would already have had been chopped up into bitty clown-flavored dog kibble, along with his vile Klown Klan.

(Assuming, of course, that I were to be in charge of all the time travel.)

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

Um, I hate to be the curmudgeon here, but if this turns out to be true it's "Yay science" not "Fuck off science". These guys *are* scientists, right? Doing scientific experiments that will be replicable...or not. If they are, relevant theories will be adjusted appropriately. That is all.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yes - and no one would have to take off their shoes before getting on a teleport, either.

Though I fear no progress would ever be made again in the course of humanity due to the number of do-overs the ability to travel back in time would allow for.

"You forgot our ANNIVERSARY!?"
*pop*
"Oh, honey, you remembered our anniversary! ... Er, we've already seen Cats-"
*pop*
"Oh, honey, you remembered our anniversary! And I've been dying to see Mamma Mia! But this restaurant got a terrible review to-"
*pop*
"Oh, honey ---"

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

It can be both - it can be "yay, science!" and "fuck off, you scientists who kept telling us it would *never happen*!"

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Hurray! I'll be able to pay that phone bill on time!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I think it did, yeah - and particle physics level is good enough for me on this; they said it COULDN'T be done. HAH, I say, HAH!

I'm just hoping this doesn't turn out to be "Hay guyz kold fuzion" 2.0.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

W00000T.

So many things to go back and fix. The toilet before it flooded the bathroom, for instance....

Shakespeare

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

heh - do you watch Doctor Who?

Re: Shakespeare

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

But of course. :)

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

Okay, deal. Though anyone who said that isn't much of a scientist.

[ratcreature]

Heh, though in the German article I've read it said that it was only virtual photons in the tunneling that were faster than light while they crossed the tunnelling barrier not real photons. I mean, with quantum-mechanics you get a lot of weird stuff, and iirc it's not new that the virtual photons are FTL in these explanations, virtual photons have always been allowed to do that. And actually the first time it was suggested (I think it was the same group too) that they observed FTL effects was in 1994, when they claimed to have transmitted a symphony across a couple of centimeters at over four times the speed of light or something, but that interpretation remained controversial, because others said that no real information travelled FTL, I still vaguely remember the discussions about that in an intro to quantum-electrodynamics lecture, there was a different interpretation to theirs anyway. So I'm not really that exited....

[klia.livejournal.com]

Didn't you see The Time Machine? NO DO-OVERS! DO NOT WANT!

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Can warp speed be far behind? :)

[silveraspen]

FTL travel here we come! I hope.

Also, your AKA title is the best summary ever.

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

I realize that so many of my comments in your journal are basically "omg AWESOME" but seriously?

omg AWESOME.. Finally, I can sleep until noon and still make it to my 8am classes!

Re: Shakespeare

[loz]

52 academics just punched the air.

[loz]

The line at the end cracks me up.

Um. Haven't we already established that you can slow the speed of light down? I was expecting this to be a take on that, so I was surprised when it wasn't.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yeah - they slowed light to something like 32mph by checking the speed as it went through... frozen sodium? I think? Anyway it was ridiculously slow as compared to the maximum speed of light.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Also, your AKA title is the best summary ever.

Thank you. I try.

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

Next step, WARP 10!! w00t!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

W00T!! Or even TARDIS!