Mjolnir
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Given the fact that this forum is rather light oriented I am surprised no one has posted about this earlier:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
Researches at CERN have produced results which seem to suggest that neutrinos traveled faster than light, which of course is impossible in our current (and experimentally backed up) understanding of physics. The researchers are of course very cautious about drawing any conclusions, as it hopefully is only due to experimental error of some kind. Otherwise, we would potentially need to reexamine our basic understanding of special relativity.
Here is a link to a preprint of the paper if oyu are interested (it hasn't been peer reviewed; it is only a preliminary paper on the topic by the researchers):
http://static.arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897.pdf
It won't make complete sense unless you have a PHd in high energy particle physics, but it is interesting to see the data directly from the source.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
Researches at CERN have produced results which seem to suggest that neutrinos traveled faster than light, which of course is impossible in our current (and experimentally backed up) understanding of physics. The researchers are of course very cautious about drawing any conclusions, as it hopefully is only due to experimental error of some kind. Otherwise, we would potentially need to reexamine our basic understanding of special relativity.
Here is a link to a preprint of the paper if oyu are interested (it hasn't been peer reviewed; it is only a preliminary paper on the topic by the researchers):
http://static.arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897.pdf
It won't make complete sense unless you have a PHd in high energy particle physics, but it is interesting to see the data directly from the source.