These apparent contradictions are due to the assumption Light is the fastest particle known to us.
This assumption need not be correct.
I remember having read somewhere Einstein having said that if a particle were to travel faster than Light it no longer remains Matter.
An interesting observation.
The observable Universe/Light is possible when the Observer and the Observed remain in the same plane.
If the velocity of the Observed is greater than the Observer He can not observe it, but can only deduce it.
In that case it does not stand to verification by strict scientific standards.
It moves then to the Realm of Philosophy, the Mother of Sciences.
The present concept can be better understood if one were to accept the Cyclic Theory of Time,which allows for particles to exist at different planes,different velocities.
Findings of Quantum Theory supports this Concept..
Please read my blog, Time-non linear theory.
Another point.
What we perceive is conditioned by Perception.
The Concept of Perception is still not very clear.
Hence what we perceive is limited by Space and Time.
None can form a thought with out reference to Space and Time.
And we are yet to define Space and Time correctly.!
So our knowledge is limited..
Any Theory we have of anything is of Utilititarian value only.
Our perception of the Universe does not change the Universe and the frequent reversal of our theories of Physical Laws do not affect the Universe in the least .
Please read my blog on Perception.
However all Theories are correct from their Perspective, including Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Finite Theory..
If a finding released Thursday by scientists in Geneva proves to be true, the world’s most famous equation – Albert Einstein‘sE=MC2 – could be moot, undoing our current understanding of the physical world.
Einstein revealed that equation in his special theory of relativityreleased in 1905. It asserted that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, and helped shape our understanding of the physical world.
The scientists in Geneva fired a beam of neutrinos – elementary particles which don’t hold an electrical charge and pass through ordinary matter with virtually no interaction – from CERN‘S particle accelerator to a lab in Italy about 730 kilometers away.
The speed of light is 299,792.458 kilometers per second. The Geneva scientists found their sub-atomic particles traveled to Italy 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light – or 300,006 kilometers per second.
That appears to break the limit set by Einstein.
http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2011/09/23/was-einstein-wrong/
Related.
Theoretical Basis for Special Relativity
Einstein’s theory of special relativity results from two statements — the two basic postulates of special relativity:
- The speed of light is the same for all observers, no matter what their relative speeds.
- The laws of physics are the same in any inertial (that is, non-accelerated) frame of reference. This means that the laws of physics observed by a hypothetical observer traveling with a relativistic particle must be the same as those observed by an observer who is stationary in the laboratory.
Given these two statements, Einstein showed how definitions of momentum and energy must be refined and how quantities such as length and time must change from one observer to another in order to get consistent results for physical quantities such as particle half-life. To decide whether his postulates are a correct theory of nature, physicists test whether the predictions of Einstein’s theory match observations. Indeed many such tests have been made — and the answers Einstein gave are right every time!
The Speed of Light is the same for all observers.
The first postulate — the speed of light will be seen to be the same relative to any observer, independent of the motion of the observer — is the crucial idea that led Einstein to formulate his theory. It means we can define a quantity c, the speed of light, which is a fundamental constant of nature.
Note that this is quite different from the motion of ordinary, massive objects. If I am driving down the freeway at 50 miles per hour relative to the road, a car traveling in the same direction at 55 mph has a speed of only 5 mph relative to me, while a car coming in the opposite direction at 55 mph approaches me at a rate of 105 mph. Their speed relative to me depends on my motion as well as on theirs.
Physics is the same for all inertial observers.
This second postulate is really a basic though unspoken assumption in all of science — the idea that we can formulate rules of nature which do not depend on our particular observing situation. This does not mean that things behave in the same way on the earth and in space, e.g. an observer at the surface of the earth is affected by the earth’s gravity, but it does mean that the effect of a force on an object is the same independent of what causes the force and also of where the object is or what its speed is.
Einstein developed a theory of motion that could consistently contain both the same speed of light for any observer and the familiar addition of velocities described above for slow-moving objects. This is called the special theory of relativity, since it deals with the relativemotions of objects.
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