Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said 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.
That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.
The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research centre near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.
So basically they discovered something thats faster then the speed of light- completely ******** on Albert Einstein's theories of special relativity. I'm happy that we're discovering new things but at the same time its stuff like this which makes me doubt what scientists have confirmed as 'true'.
What other things do you think will be dis-proven in the future of science?
I don't believe it. Neutrinos might travel though a given medium faster than light because they don't tend to interact with most types of matter (for instance, water), but I don't believe their results will hold.
YASSS, they better drag Einstein's scalp all up and down the laboratory.
Now really, this is awesome, but pics/video or it didn't happen.
Now now really, this is a very interesting discover, but I don't think it's true. Still, they bettah mess and **** up all Einstein theories, which I'm here for.
