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Remember, about a month ago, that findings were published which claimed neutrinos violated a fundamental law of physics, which states that nothing can go faster than the speed of light? Well these physicists at the OPERA experiment are back at it!
The point is to look for flip-flops in neutrino flavor, which requires precisely measuring and averaging the chargeless particles’ arrival and departure times. It was in this routine timing that a team led by Antonio Ereditato found particles apparently moving faster than light. They were arriving at Gran Sasso about 60 nanoseconds earlier than the time it would take light to travel the same distance.
This violates the known laws of physics, but the OPERA collaborators saw it happen so frequently that it couldn’t be a fluke; they released their findings to the greater scientific community, hoping for some insight. Several other physicists have since proposed new theoretical explanations, including the possibility that the clocks on the GPS satellites used for the precise arrival-departure timing do not themselves account for relativistic motion.
“They actually planned to make the results public in 2015, but they traveled faster than light and came out last month,” says Associate Editor Paul.
Read more (Via PopSci)
Article by: Rebecca Boyle
I’m sorry, i can’t help but highlight the little humor in the quote just at the end. Kudos!
