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Science & Technology
CERN scientists break the speed of light
2016-01-25
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.
Neutrinos are smaller than photons, so naturally they have less friction. Honestly, the science is settled, guys.
"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."

If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.

That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.

The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research centre near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.
Posted by:badanov

#19  The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011.
But as a result of exceeding the speed of light it is a victim of time misfitting./
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-01-25 22:11  

#18  Thanks for the clarification, further I agree with the policy. I learn something new every day.
Posted by: rammer   2016-01-25 20:34  

#17  Just think of the story as the sort of temporal anomaly that happens when you get close to the speed of light.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-01-25 20:12  

#16  This isn't news. The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011. I understand that mistakes happen, ok, but why it still on the 'burg? Come on mods, can't you just pull the link when this happens?

My policy is to keep the post up if someone has commented on it. Someone did.

We have other fine stories here for you to peruse
Posted by: badanov   2016-01-25 20:08  

#15  This isn't news. The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011. I understand that mistakes happen, ok, but why it still on the 'burg? Come on mods, can't you just pull the link when this happens?
Posted by: rammer   2016-01-25 19:02  

#14  what do you use for turn signals?

The finger?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-01-25 18:18  

#13  If you're travelling faster than light, what do you use for turn signals?
Posted by: Dar   2016-01-25 18:11  

#12  This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.

So the old principle applies - you break it, you fix it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-01-25 17:17  

#11  What we know about matter in the universe applies to about 4.6% of it.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-25 17:09  

#10  Iblis: it's supposed to go:

Who's there?

Knock, knock
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-01-25 16:58  

#9  A faster than light neutrino.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?
Posted by: Iblis   2016-01-25 14:33  

#8  TW, it seems you are fully qualified as a global warming scientist. ;-)

Had I been in charge, we would have enjoyed the benefits of the warm side of the cycle, while preparing for the cold side to come, gorb dear, but where's the obscene profits in that?

This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.

Good catch, PBMcL!
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-01-25 12:05  

#7  "Albert uses old envelopes which he pilfers from me."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-01-25 02:58  

#6  Friend at Brookhaven National Labs doesn't believe anything this group says. They keep announcing this and problem's keep being found. Last announcement was disproved by a loose fiber optics connector.

Sounds like the Paradox Prevention Principle is working.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-01-25 00:58  

#5  TW, it seems you are fully qualified as a global warming scientist. ;-)
Posted by: gorb   2016-01-25 00:43  

#4  So, warp nacelles aren't arriving anytime soon?
Posted by: Raj   2016-01-25 00:41  

#3  Sorry. I pulled it from Facebook without checking.

My bad.
Posted by: badanov   2016-01-25 00:37  

#2  Friend at Brookhaven National Labs doesn't believe anything this group says. They keep announcing this and problem's keep being found. Last announcement was disproved by a loose fiber optics connector.
Friend says the whole Hi-Energy physics group at CERN is very fractured. Lots of in-fighting ...
Posted by: 3dc   2016-01-25 00:35  

#1  This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.
Posted by: PBMcL   2016-01-25 00:33  

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