The Mystery of the Gamma-Ray Burst: When the Speed of Light Is Not Constant ⚡ экспресс
Original: "The 300 TeV photon from GRB 221009A: a Hint at Non-linear Lorentz Invariance Violation?"
Telescopes caught a photon from a gamma-ray burst that arrived late and wasn't absorbed — casting doubt on the constancy of the speed of light.
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The most powerful gamma-ray burst in history produced a photon with hundreds of TeV energy. It reached Earth, though by ordinary laws it should have gotten stuck along the way. Perhaps the speed of light itself is not constant — such a shift in physics will open the door to new technologies.
🎯 The gamma-ray burst was nicknamed BOAT (Brightest Of All Time, meaning 'boat'), but the captured photon is just a drop in the bucket of its total energy.
🎬 The idea of a changing speed of light has been explored by science fiction writers, for example in the novel 'Spin' by Robert Charles Wilson.