Speed of light broken by neutrinos? live Q&A
From 4pm BST, two physicists will be answering your questions about the implications of tantalising evidence that neutrinos may be able to travel faster than the speed of lightNews broke on Thursday night that physicists working in a lab under a mountain in Italy have been getting some truly extraordinary results. For the past three years, they have been recording the arrival times of neutrinos sent by the Cern particle physics laboratory 730km away, and their data suggest the subatomic particles are travelling through the Earth faster than the speed of light.If this finding can be verified, it would mean Einstein's famous declaration that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum is wrong. The laws of physics as we know them state that information cannot be communicated faster than the speed of light. What's going on?According to Subir Sarkar, head of particle theory at Oxford...
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