(09-24-2011, 01:36)TehCthulhu Wrote: (09-24-2011, 00:54)guthriearmstrong Wrote: Some guys took two atomic clocks, set to exactly the same time, put one on land, and put one in a plane. They drove the plane to mach 2, and then checked the clocks. The one on the plane slowed down by 20 nanoseconds, so technically, the drivers traveled 20 nanoseconds into the future.
It didn't move into the future, time just passed slower for it so it "lost" 20 nanoseconds.
Also: this does mean Einstein was wrong (if it turns out to be true), but it doesn't "just mean Einstein was wrong", this means everything we think we know about the universe works is wrong. Physics may as well just start over.
If this turns out to be true, me may as well have just discovered the sun does not orbit the earth.
Actually no. In the mid 20th century, Robert Maxwell stated that everything we knew about physics had been discovered and proven. Not ten years passed before we stepped into an age of Einstein's quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. It is not true that the laws of physics have been redefined or proven to wrong. What is true, is that our knowledge of it expanded, thereby potentially disproving certain stuff we know, or think we know, but is massively different from what actually is true.
