Here’s more on the interesting experiment demonstrating that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light, a finding which needs confirmation. Researchers are currently conducting studies hoping to prove or disprove this claim. ~ Ilene
A CERN experiment claims to have caught neutrinos breaking the universe’s most fundamental speed limit. The ghostly subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy.
Fish that physics textbook back out of the wastebasket, though: the new result contradicts previous measurements of neutrino speed that were based on a supernova explosion. What’s more, there is still room for error in the departure time of the supposed speedsters. And even if the result is correct, thanks to theories that posit extra dimensions, it does not necessarily mean that the speed of light has been beaten.
"If it’s true, it’s fantastic. It will rock the foundation of physics," says Stephen Parke of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. "But we still have to confirm it."
Keep reading: Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed – physics-math – 23 September 2011 – New Scientist.
