Starting now: Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Faster Than the Speed of Light

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Last edited Tue Mar 20, 2012, 08:18 PM - Edit history (1)

Live stream via ustream. Neil Degrasse Tyson speaking now.

This year’s Asimov debate will pit some of the experimentalists who claim to have discovered faster-than-light neutrinos against their strongest critics, as well as other teams who are racing to test relativity with unprecedented precision.

Join Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson as he hosts and moderates six of the world’s leading voices in this great scientific debate. To watch the debate streamed live, tune in to amnh.org/live on the evening of Tuesday, March 20.

Dr. David Cline, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
Dr. Gian Giudice, Theoretical Physics Division, CERN
Dr. Sheldon Glashow, Department of Physics, Boston University
Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development
Dr. Laura Patrizii, Department of Physics, University of Bologna
Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

http://www.amnh.org/calendar/event/2012-Isaac-Asimov-Memorial-Debate:-Faster-Than-the-Speed-of-Light/

[lob1]

1. Sounds good, but I'm sure it'll go over my head faster than the speed of light.

[bananas]

2. Did Neil Tyson not know that gps clocks are corrected for relativity?

He said his mind was blown, was this really new to him or is he just being a showman?

[pokerfan]

3. A little of both I think

He may not have ever heard it expressed as an 11 km error.

[pokerfan]

4. Well, that was edifying

For anyone who missed it, it will be on Youtube soon:

[pokerfan]

6. Posted

[fightforfreedom123]

5. Just this week

An experiment shows that neutrinos do not travel faster than light.

Next!

[Motown_Johnny]

7. We already know it was faulty equipment that led to those results

and we knew right away that the results couldn't be right because the neutrino bursts from Novas don't travel faster than the visible light (they get here at about the same time every time).

They may as well be debating Boxers v. Briefs.


This is an embarrassment and an insult to the good name of my favorite author.