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Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern

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Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
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Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 6:42 pm (This post was last modified: September 22, 2011 at 6:43 pm by little_monkey.)
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 7:07 pm
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Let's see if other labs reproduce the findings.

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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 7:19 pm
I hope it's evidence of tachyons, because that would be cool. Tongue
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 7:42 pm
My father and I have suspected this for a long time, that there were particles of matter out there that could do faster-than-light travel. Naturally any such discovery which threatens to up-heave a century of physics will receive a lot of hostility from many scientists across the board, and that's putting it mildly. Tongue

Its a set-back if proven true but I'd rather throw out a hundred inaccurate science textbooks and write up new ones from scratch, than risk keeping out-of-date information that'll prevent us understanding reality better, wouldn't you?
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 7:49 pm
An update on this:

Apparently the neutrinos were fired a distance of 500 miles, and traveled that distance 60 nanoseconds faster that light would have taken. It's not much, but it's still faster.
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 22, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I'm taking a physics course, and I'm seriously considering emailing this story to him.
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 23, 2011 at 5:28 am (This post was last modified: September 23, 2011 at 5:31 am by little_monkey.)
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 23, 2011 at 5:52 am
The website says 16:00 CEST.
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RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
September 23, 2011 at 6:15 am (This post was last modified: September 23, 2011 at 6:15 am by Welsh cake.)
Well none of this is a problem for quantum mechanics, they may have to devise a whole new branch of science to accommodate faster-than-light particles though.

Can anyone see the potential benefits of using neutrinos as a new form of communication? I mean, were we to fire them through the planet could it revolutionise Internet access?
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