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Scientists measure Neutrinos to go faster than lightspeed



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 09.24.2011 12:05am
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/science-light-idUSL5E7KM4CW20110922

<span id="articleText">GENEVA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles travelling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe. </span>

Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers, told Reuters 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.

"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.

In case you want details, here's a PDF report of the experiment (linked from reuters) http://static.arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897.pdf

I'm surprised nobody posted this yet!




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 09.24.2011 12:07am


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 09.24.2011 12:10am


Clowd Cole
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Neutrinos?

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 09.24.2011 12:27am


Sei'taer
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I'm sure no one posted it because they're not sure if they didn't completely fuck the experiment up yet or not.

If it's confirmed again it'll be amazing news.

And still no one will care.




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 09.24.2011 12:30am
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OrionHardy
Otherworld



Physicist Brian Cox's opinion on Cern's find

This could either undermind Einstein's theory or prove String Theory.



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 09.24.2011 1:16am


Onyx
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Now we can go back to working on warp drive.




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 09.24.2011 6:42am


Free Spirit
Zetta Member



This is awesome. If it's a valid result(and I'm predicting it will be), it really will usher in a whole new field of physical understanding.




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 09.24.2011 9:46am


Arckanghel
Pirate.



I'm waiting to here what the fallout will be. Disproving theories is a worthy accomplishment, especially big ones, but the real accomplishment is building something on the top of what you bulldozed.




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 09.25.2011 5:34am


Crux
A mental Dentist's office



^ That too, ie. I hope they can help to explain how high velocity muons are observed to decay sooner than usual; as the Theory of Relativity had previously explained as being due to time being expressed for them differently.




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 09.26.2011 5:04pm


Catastrophe
I'm Catbug!



Now where's my time travel at?




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 09.27.2011 2:42am


Crux
A mental Dentist's office



In a Minute!




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 09.28.2011 12:40am


Id82
Fuck Shit Stack.



So my friend said this could eventually, maybe not in our life time, lead to light speed travel? If so how?




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 09.28.2011 4:51am


Monetary Dragon
Just keep swimming

Wait for confirmation. This could very easily simply be not true. People, like Id82's friend, are getting WAAAY ahead of themselves.




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 09.28.2011 9:06am


scnix
scnix.com



Kinda a stupid question, but what will this prove? That a particle/atom/thingy can travel faster or as fast as the speed of light?

How would that help us?




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 09.28.2011 12:55pm


LB
Necromancer of Winning



We are stuck in our solar system. Even at light speed, the closest star systems are decades away. The closest systems with planets are hundreds of years away. The possibility of finding intelligent life or a habitable planet is slim with this kind of time restraint.

If there is no "universal speed limit" it opens the door to other possibilities. I have never understood why, in open space, an object with renewable energy, couldn't constantly gain speed beyond light speed. It might take a long time, but acceleration causes the problems, not the actual speed. I also never took physics, just read a lot of Carl Sagan and Discovery magazine.




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