Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos? Physics Luminaries Voice Doubts
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 14:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A few dozen nanoseconds, an imperceptibly slim margin in everyday life, can make all the difference in experimental physics. A European physics collaboration made a stunning announcement September 23, after having clocked elementary particles called neutrinos making the underground journey from a lab in Switzerland to one in Italy. The neutrinos made the trip 60 nanoseconds faster than they would have traveling at light speed, the researchers found. Faster, that is, than the rules of physics as we understand them would allow. [More]