Friday, September 23, 2011

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Speed of light 'broken' by scientists

"It was Albert Einstein, no less, who proposed more than 100 years ago that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light."

This has always been my problem with the expression "the science is settled", as is often said by some members of the environmental movement.  The thing about science is that it's never settled; there are always new things to learn and newer, more accurate ways of understanding the elements of creation.  It's like saying that theology is settled, and...oh, wait a minute.  Yep, there are people who say that, too, and they are equally as naive.  [Unless they wear a purple shirt, in which case they are always right.]