Commissioner Gordon would be proud.

Einstein and God

I just read this New York Times article about the neutrinos that supposedly broke the light-speed barrier. It's so disappointing. I've been in the camp of people saying, this must be a mistake. Looks like the results might be correct after all. For me, Einstein is a figure of such mythic proportions that these results seem practically blasphemous. Of course, physics is a strange place for these religious sentiments. The problem is, these results don't amount to a new theory of the universe - all they do is provide a counterexample to special relativity. So, I feel this explanatory void. Suddenly, the universe is a little more mysterious. Suddenly, we need another Einstein to give us a newer, truer way to see the world. All because some particles moved 60 billionths of a second faster than they were supposed to. I feel like Saul when Samuel died, and I wish there was a witch I could visit to conjure up the ghost of Einstein.