Faster Than the Speed of Light?
2011 · 60 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 59 VOTES
Overview
In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim - they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy. Suddenly there was talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes. So what is going on? Has Einstein's famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we one day be able to travel into the past or even into another universe? In this film, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores one of the most dramatic scientific announcements for a generation. In clear, simple language he tells the story of the science we thought we knew, how it is being challenged, and why it matters.
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00:00:02 These are the Appennine mountains in Central Italy.
00:02:15 Light floods the cosmos.
00:04:56 An amateur scientist, someone who didn't have an academic position.
00:07:13 One of those papers transformed our understanding of light.
00:09:28 that if the speed of light was the same regardless
00:11:59 The more I accelerate, the more my mass increases
00:14:04 It's a very anti-social particle. It doesn't like to talk to the world.
00:16:17 chain reaction in a nuclear reactor.
00:18:59 The only way to study neutrinos is to find some way to weed out
00:21:14 The proton beam was then passed into the Super Proton Synchrotron
00:23:32 and a clock in your experiment where you've made the measurement.
00:25:36 If the velocity of light turned out not to be absolute
00:27:48 Here's an example of what might happen.
00:30:01 A barman says, "Sorry, we don't serve neutrinos."
00:32:50 most people thought that, somewhere along the line
00:35:33 when the neutrinos left CERN.
00:37:43 but I'm surprised that they didn't treat that more seriously
00:40:02 in the OPERA results, it only seems fair to explore other options.
00:42:28 than the speed of light.
00:44:34 but if you're actually working in the frontier of physics
00:47:36 of a constant cosmic speed limit, the speed of light
00:50:00 String theory is based on the idea that we only have
00:52:14 which lives itself in a higher dimensional bulk space time
00:55:23 But it's only fair to say that many string theorists