WE JUST BROKE THE SPEED OF LIGHT!!!

By we, I do not mean me and my collection of scientists that I keep locked in a basement, although the truth isn't too far from that.  It isn't my basement, it's the CERN facility located in Italy, and by "we" I mean all of us collectively, as humans but most specifically the scientists involved in the process.

You can read the story on the Telegraph's website here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8782895/CERN-scientists-break-the-speed-of-light.html

I'm not going to talk about the scientific ramifications of this new discovery (which still needs to be tested by outside scientists to verify its validity - data will be released Friday for this purpose) or how this might have an effect on politics, policies, etc...

What I want to talk about is us, and what this means for us as members of the human race.

Human beings are capable of some pretty amazing things. We have and continue to battle and conquer various diseases that plagued our ancestors.  We've created implements whose use has allowed us longer and better lives and greater convenience.   We launched a dog into space and put a man on the moon.  We've sent satellites off into space to reach to the furthest stretches of the universe.

We hope.

We dream.

We make it real.

We have just seen something amazing, something miraculous.  Something that might just make us better as humans...