For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

[Swede]

For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brook haven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.

Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun, and conservation of energy remained intact. But for the tiniest fraction of a second at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), physicists created a symmetry-breaking bubble of space where parity no longer existed.

http://www.physorg.com/news188211977.html

[ericinne]

1. Uh, OK

Did they remember to divide by zero?

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I bet it was something that Dick Cheney did!

[HeresyLives]

3. 'Laws' of Nature...aren't.

They are only temporary.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Somebody got a date?

:Duck_and_Cover:

--d!

[Leftist Agitator]

5. Which makes me wonder what we will find when the LHC is up and running at full capacity...

:hide:

[roguevalley]

10. how many angels can balance on the head of a pin?

[kestrel91316]

6. Laws of Nature cannot be broken, merely misunderstood.

Somebody just needs to rethink what they think the laws are.

[girl gone mad]

7. P-symmetry violation is nothing new.

We know Parity is broken in weak nuclear interactions. CPT symmetery is fundamental and remains preserved, as I suspect is the case in this experiment.

Nothing revolutionary, and I would be surprised if this result hasn't been predicted by at least a couple of high energy theories.

[dchill]

8. Is that anything like...

the flux capacitor?

[agent46]

9. Laws of Nature

Laws of Nature are really only local habits.