Showing posts with label Speed of Light. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

HUGE NEWS IF TRUE: Speed of Light Breakable if You're a Neutrino



Kind of huge news, assuming it can be reproduced by other scientists.  What's the huge news? Turns out the speed of light may not be the speed limit of the universe after all.

What happened was that some guys at CERN in Switzerland shot a neutrino beam at a sensor panel 700KM+ away and it got there in less time than it would take light to get there.  They replicated this 16,000 times.

Read more in the article capped above at Nature.com.

I'm reeeeally hoping this is true.