"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them." -Lee H. Hamilton
But sometimes, going ever faster is where all the fun is at. Have a listen to the Stray Cats, from their debut album, as they plow through their title track,
(For those of you who need a little help, remember that the USA does distances in miles.)
Of course, I had to push it just a little bit more to become an OPERA neutrino...
so if you see that Cohen-Glashow radiation out there on the highway, don't worry.
It's just my car, thinking it's a neutrino!
(No Toyotas went back in time and killed their own grandfathers in the writing of this post.)
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"Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules." -Douglas Adams
"We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen." -John Bahcall
"I know all about neutrinos, and my friend here knows about everything else in astrophysics." -John Bahcall
Neutrinos are the most poorly understood particles in the standard model. Remember the standard model?
"I have difficulty to believe it, because nothing in Italy arrives ahead of time."
-Sergio Bertolucci, research director at CERN, on faster-than-light neutrinos
gotta be a honda! mine went up to 300K!
Great, tx. And that reminds me, are we still just "huh?" about the FTL neutrinos?
But...you can only do that in a DeLorean!
Having been brought up in Australia in the 1960s, 186,282 is the number I learnt for the speed of light. I don't even know what it is to that accuracy in kilometers/second.