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At a recent TED talk in Geneva, CERN particle physicist Harry Cliff presented his audience with a controversial new concept: science may be entering an era where "we could be facing questions that we cannot answer. Not because we don’t have the brains or technology, but because the laws of physics themselves forbid it." Key to Cliff’s concept are two numbers: one concerning the strength of the Higgs Field, as validated in recent years by the production of the Higgs boson, and the other being the force exerted by what physicists call dark energy.
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At this month’s 215th meeting of the American AstronomicalSociety inour nation’s Capital, two researchers at the LosAlamos National Laboratory presented an idea that might throw thephysicscommunity for a loop. There may be something in theuniverse faster than light itself. (If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would have already read this story! To sign up, click here).

John Singleton and Andrea Schmidt pushed the limits of thespeed of light theory, suggesting that while no ‘mass orinformation’ may travel any faster, waves of light couldpossibly pass through certain pulsars, or fast-spinningstars,faster than the speed of light.
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Australian scientists think the speed of light may not beconstant, which could bring down one of the most basic lawsof modern physics: Einstein’s theory of relativity.It’s possible that the speed of light has slowed down overbillions of years, and “That means giving up the theory ofrelativity and E-mc squared and all that sort of stuff,”says physicist Paul Davies.
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