(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); While this may not actually seem like a debate, I consider it one, and this is the closest section you can get for this discussion so it's going here.

So as some of you may remember a few weeks ago a group of scientists in Switzerland carried out an experiment in which neutrinos were sent from Switzerland to Italy - and arrived in Rome 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. A couple weeks later the experiment was repeated and the same result was found. There's a lot of room for error when dealing with such small numbers and with the complex calculations, but what with the same result in the repeated experiment it is definitely raising eyebrows.

While this may not sound like a lot, if this were to be true this is an incredible revelation as the very basis of Physics relies upon Einstein's theory that it is impossible to break the speed of light. I'm not going to go into the science too much but as demonstrated by his famous equation E=mc^2, as something gets faster its energy increases and therefore its mass (as energy is equivalent to mass). As the object has become heavier, it requires even more energy to accelerate. Mass is an infinite number and such as velocity increases it would require infinite amounts of energy to go faster than the speed of light.

According to The Theory of Relativity, time which is moving in a moving time frame moves slower than time in a stationary time frame the faster you go. The moving time frame would be whatever you're travelling in, and the stationary time frame would be the Earth. I'm not going to go too much more into the science but as you get closer and closer to the Speed of Light time slows down; so if you were able to break the speed of light, when you returned from the past time would have moved forward far more than you were gone.

Neutrinos wouldn't be the best form of particle to send back in time (say for sending signals to a former self) due to their odd nature; they dont interact with normal matter. However, if this were to be true (and they can travel faster than the speed of light) do you think it opens the possibility of sending signals to the past?

Do you think we will ever be able to time travel?

I am very certain that reverse time travel is impossible, but forward can be done. If you were to revolve around a black hole for 3 minutes and come back to Earth, 10 years would have passed. So yes, time travel is possible; go try it out.

You have drastically exaggerated the effects of time dilation. You'd need to get absurdly close and orbit VERY close to c (a natural orbit wouldn't do the job) to achieve those kinds of effects.