Faster Than Light Particles Found, Claim Scientists

Albert Einstein

First Posted: 23/09/11 10:03 BST Updated: 23/09/11 10:51 BST

The Guardian:

It is a concept that forms a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe and the concept of time – nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

But now it seems that researchers working in one of the world's largest physics laboratories, under a mountain in central Italy, have recorded particles travelling at a speed that is supposedly forbidden by Einstein's theory of special relativity.

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It is a concept that forms a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe and the concept of time – nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But now it seems that researchers workin...
It is a concept that forms a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe and the concept of time – nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But now it seems that researchers workin...
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06:54 AM on 09/25/2011
After experiencing the hysterical over-reaction to the discovery of a period of mild global warming in the late 1980s, scientists must not go overboard with the news from Geneva. The physicist Antonio Ereditato spokesman for the CERN team said they appeared to have clocked subatomic particles, called neutrinos, traveling faster than light. The team fired a neutrino beam 454 miles (730 kilometers) underground from Geneva to Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory found it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. If the experiment is independently repeated in the USA and Japan, such an anomaly would require Albert Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity to be revisited. Asked how he would know if his theory was correct, Einstein said if Germany referred to him as a Jew and France referred to him as a German he was wrong - and vice-versa.
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03:41 PM on 09/24/2011
Though I have done in college calculus a proof of the Mean Value Theorem, my math does not qualify me for theoretical physics. But as a non-physicist, I mimic what non-artists say about art, "I know what I like." I have always thought it logically enthymemic to assume light as a constant, and then on this assumption project the shape and movement of the universe (mostly away from Earth). Hubble's (the man, not the satellite) observations of such movement seemed to confirm the Big Bang (the theory, not the TV show).
The Big Bang after all began literally as a Judeo-Christian confirmation of Genesis by Monsignor LeMaitre and Friedmann. The Big Bang may prove an incident in cosmological theory, like, say, Heraclitus.
Maybe, maybe everything's not moving away, shunning us. Then again, maybe all the smart stars are, since they know something about humanity.
02:18 AM on 09/24/2011
OFF THE SCALE
-- James Ph. Kotsybar

The young lady known simply as Bright,
who could travel at speeds fast as light,
said, “While I’m never late,
I’m concerned that my weight
goes to infinite mass, though I’m slight.”