Some scientific certainties feel set in stone, but history shows even the most solid theories can crumble. Which one would you secretly love to see toppled?
Put the items in your preferred order.
The speed of light is the universal limit
For over a century, nothing has been allowed to outrun light. Imagine the chaos if some clever physicist at CERN proved otherwise.
You can't un-boil an egg
Entropy always increases, they say. But wouldn't it be poetic justice to reverse the laws of breakfast itself?
Time only moves forward
Physics insists time is a one-way street, but plenty of theorists disagree. A proper time machine would solve a lot of regrets.
Ageing is inevitable
Every cell, every wrinkle, every dodgy knee. Cracking this one would change humanity forever, and absolutely wreck the pension system.
Nothing can escape a black hole
Hawking himself wobbled on this one. Proving the universe's greedy vacuum cleaners actually share would rewrite cosmology.
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