Requesting a thread regarding CERN - Breaking Speed of Light
So, CERN researchers say that they've found out that particles called neutrino travels faster than the speed of light...
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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.
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Much science-fiction literature is based on the idea that, if the light-speed barrier can be overcome, time travel might theoretically become possible.
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Sern...Cern. Coincidence much?
link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...78L4FH20110922
Is this worth discussing? haha.