[danielmryan]

It might be the result of a hidden measurement error, but if not...it's the new Michaelson-Morley experiment. It's real news for any physics buff, provided it's confirmed.

One question comes to mind: why didn't the neutrinos travel backwards in time? Or did they, adding to their speed?

[Onelifetogive]

arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.

Interesting article. As it turns out, they ordered the particles from Dominos, they did actually arrive that fast, but a teenaged driver killed a family of 4 getting them there. Sort of a mixed bag of results.

[TexasTransplant]

OH SURE ... but how does that effect Man Made Global Warming?

We only want Important stuff not this nano second BS

Scientists should do “Stuff to Save the Planet”

/ Sarc

TT

[UCANSEE2]

“We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing,”

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This from the guys who recently came up with this:

“There is a new measurement of the size of the proton and it turns out that protons are smaller than we thought they were.”

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/07/12/the-size-of-the-proton/

[twister881]

And until now, I thought it was only Black Friday shoppers who had exceeded light speed.

[LibWhacker]

OMG, I’ve got to post this to FreeRepublic! Oh, wait...

Lol, that’s literally what went through my mind when I saw your thread.

Nice find. Very interesting. Thanks for posting. :-)

[SunTzuWu]

Neutrino's have no mass, right? No mass, no problem with FTL.

[Glenn]

Someone is looking for a grant.

Call me a luddite, but Albert's mathematics have stood the test of many times (no pun intended).

[UCANSEE2]

What I want to know is how did they ‘tag’ the neutrinos so that they could differentiate them from all the other neutrinos that are running laps around CERN?

[UCANSEE2]

Maybe it’s not the neutrinos that are going faster, it’s just that light has slowed down.

: )

[Brett66]

Looks like these Neutrinos traveled about 6,000 meters a second faster than light. I wonder if they could tell which direction time flows with these particles?

[Nik Naym]

Heck, we Americans new way back in the early seventies that those new Torinos were fast.

I wish Ford hadn’t quit making them.

[jonascord]

Why would they travel backwards in time? If Einstein's speed limit has been broken, we are going to have to rewrite the rules about the behavior of matter at relativistic speeds.

According to theory, those neutrinos should have had infinite mass at 100% of light speed. (Or, do neutrinos have mass? I dunno...) That they did not, obviously, means someone is going to have to do some hugh and series number crunching.

Something else to consider: If we can break light speed, that means that the stars, and all those fat juicy planets we can pillage, aren't as out of reach as we thought. I'm not saying to pack a bag, but...

[KoRn]

/mark

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"We now want colleagues to check them independently."

How amateurish of them.

True professionals would say "the science is settled."

[Dallas59]

[C210N]

a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe.

A court even higher than the Supremes?

[P.O.E.]

All my science fiction story dreams come true.

If true.

[The_Reader_David]

It’s either measurement error or we’ll need quantum correction to general relativity (but everyone was expecting to need quantum corrections to GR anyway).

And still no Higgs boson . . .

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder how much the ticket is for breaking the speed of light?

[irishtenor]

They were so fast they got there before they were sent...