Universe Today => High Energy Gamma Rays Go Slower Than the Speed of Light?
The speed of light is the speed of light, and that’s that. Right? Well, maybe not. Try and figure this out. Astronomers studying radiation coming from a distant galaxy found that the high energy gamma rays arrived a few minutes after the lower-energy photons, even though they were emitted at the same time. If true, this result would overturn Einstein’s theory of relativity, which says that all photons should move at the speed of light. Uh oh Einstein.
Well, this will be interesting if it gets confirmed…
Either way, it’s going to make for some great new science fiction movies. Just read this quote:
So what’s happening? Nobody knows, and this could turn into an entirely new field of physics. The researchers are proposing that maybe the radiation is interacting with “quantum foamâ€. This is a theoretical property of space itself, and predicted by quantum gravity theory – a competitor to string theory.
Quantum foam?!?!
What a great idea! Can you imagine it? Quantum foam arrives on Earth in a small south-western town and begins terrorizing the town, slowing people down until they become stone. This movie is going to give a good run on the classic Monolith Monsters!
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