"Faster Than The Speed Of Light" documentary

BBC promo for "Faster Than The Speed Of Light," as well as the complete video rom http://documentaries-lectures.com below:

(PS: Related:  Magueijo video: Faster than the speed of light?)

In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim -- they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light.

It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy. Suddenly there was talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes.

So what is going on? Has Einstein's famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we one day be able to travel into the past or even into another universe?

In this film, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores one of the most dramatic scientific announcements for a generation. In clear, simple language he tells the story of the science we thought we knew, how it is being challenged, and why it matters.

{BBC)

Magueijo video: Faster than the speed of light?

Someone's gotta ask these questions:

Maguijo's Big Bang

Maverick, "heretical" physicist stud, Joao Maguijo...the guy  who, during a hangover, came to the conclusion Einstein was wrong (see labels below).... hosted this Discovery Channel series, "Joao Maguijo's Big Bang,"   deconstructing the Six Holy Grails of contemporary science..

anarchist, heretic, the Luther of physics

"What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab?

Are they not both saying Hello?"
-Annie Dillard

He's been called an anarchist, heretic..

...as well as a genius..

He may even be the Luther of Physics.

He thinks Einstein was wrong.
His book is 1 cent on amazon.

We should like him!

Parts 1 and 2 of series:

Protestant competence

"What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab?

Are they not both saying Hello?"

Anyone reading here will not be surprised at my delight in finding Annie Dillard's quote.

I find physics at its best is God-haunted. It cathedrals me.

One of the most intriguing, innovative pushers of norms and forms circulating in scholarly physics is Joao Magueijo...the book jacket of his controversial "Faster Than the Speed of Light" begins by suggesting the book is nothing less than "how one brilliant young physist's heretical idea may dethrone Einstein and forever change the we see see the universe."

It's true.

And he's funny.

He's not afraid to go where his studies, research and imagination lead him; asking:

What if the very foundation of contemporary physics is wrong; the only thing Einstein was sure of?

Obviously, a huge word fto apply for church-and-culture thinkers.

On a lighter (?) note, he offers this "aside" (?), whose delightfully devestating last two words are worth the price of this "secular" book; and well worth dwelling on; that I might avoid accidentally incarnating them:

I have always felt there is happy and unhappy drinking. Like most Mediterraneans, I am a happy drinker, and a glass of good wine is simply part of the general enjoyment of life. Northern European drinking is more often than not unhappy drinking--phenomenally voluminious, aimed at erasing from your brain a dreary day full of Protestant competence. (143)

At first, I only had one response to those two words:

!!

But then I realized:

Ironically, he just may be the Luther of physics.