Are we living in a Truman Show universe?

[DimPrawn]

Mysterious force holds back Nasa probe in deep space - Telegraph

A SPACE probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics.

Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature.



My view is all the stars and planets outside of our solar system are painted on the inside of a big sphere and the probe has just bounced off.

[Doggy Styles]

Mysterious force holds back Nasa probe in deep space - Telegraph

A SPACE probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics.

Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature.

My view is all the stars and planets outside of our solar system are painted on the inside of a big sphere and the probe has just bounced off.

Wouldn't this mysterious new force wreck Steven Hawkings' latest unifying theory of the other four?

Will he have to shove his multiverses up his arse?

[doodab]

Wouldn't this mysterious new force wreck Steven Hawkings' latest unifying theory of the other four?

It won't wreck anything. It's another clue.

[TimberWolf]

Not so much Truman Show as Star Trek physics. Ships slow down when the power runs out and ships that have been disabled list to one side on the main view screen.

I thought this had been detected before (I haven't read the article cited here yet) and that it had been explained away.

[Doggy Styles]

It won't wreck anything. It's another clue.

Well, the holy grail of a unifying theory of the four known forces (Electromagnetic, gravity, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) suddenly won't work if there's another force involved (if this report is true that is).

So any theory based on just four forces would be, er, wrecked. A bit like what heppened to the old theory of matter, that everything is made of air, earth, water and fire.

Could we end up with a periodic table of more than one hundred forces?

[Cliphead]

Well, the holy grail of a unifying theory of the four known forces (Electromagnetic, gravity, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) suddenly won't work if there's another force involved (if this report is true that is).

So any theory based on just four forces would be, er, wrecked. A bit like what heppened to the old theory of matter, that everything is made of air, earth, water and fire.

Could we end up with a periodic table of more than one hundred forces?

If there is another force then that surely would be a step forward for a unified theory?

[Doggy Styles]

If there is another force then that surely would be a step forward for a unified theory?

Who knows.

These sticking-plaster theories get more outlandish every day.

[Platypus]

Not so much Truman Show as Star Trek physics. Ships slow down when the power runs out and ships that have been disabled list to one side on the main view screen.

Bah! Next you'll be telling us that all those explosions don't make satisfying loud explosion sounds in space

[doodab]

Who knows.

These sticking-plaster theories get more outlandish every day.

If you can be bothered to study the maths rather than reading the verbiage that attempts to explain them to the layman without using equations they actually make a lot more sense.

[CheeseSlice]

The probes aren't literally coming back towards the sun.

Both probes are now travelling at 27,000mph towards stars that they will encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than seven billion miles from Earth.

Research to be published shortly in The Physical Review, a leading physics journal, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph per century - a barely-perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than gravity.

Its like they're on a very long bungee rope, and its only just started to stretch. It'll be quite some time until they come back.