Thursday, September 29, 2011

Neutrinos Faster than Light?

Although this 'The Week' article about neutrinos possibly being faster than light (but how different, really, are they from light? And just because they can travel faster than it doesn't mean we can travel faster than it, so why would that make time travel seem more feasible?) is pretty interesting, prompting all of my parenthetical questions.

That being said, it has one of the weirdest endings of an article I've ever seen:

"We will continue our studies and we will wait patiently for the confirmation," [says physicist Antonio De Rujula]. "Everybody is free to do what they want: To think, to claim, to dream." At least for now, he adds, "I'm not going to tell you my dreams."
Who's asking about your dreams, Rujula? Now I really don't want to know about them. Sounds like they're pretty disturbing, but you secretly want to tell us because you want to see our reaction, which is why you told us you wouldn't tell us them without us even asking. Is that what's going on? Or did the interviewer get all creepy and ask, "Hey buddy, what'd you dream about? Hot stuff? Science-y stuff? Hot sciencey-stuff?" in which case they may have just been hitting on you.

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