October 2011
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Speedy neutrino mystery likely solved, relativity... →
Those weird faster-than-light neutrinos that CERN thought they saw last month may have just gotten slowed down to a speed that’ll keep them from completely destroying physics as we know it. In an ironic twist, the very theory that these neutrinos would have disproved may explain exactly what happened.
Back in September, physicists ran an experiment where they sent bunches of...
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5 Myths about Girls regarding Math & Science →
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'Light-speed' neutrinos point to new physical... →
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[This New Scientist article is only available to subscribers so it has been presented in its entirety.]
SUBATOMIC particles have broken the universe’s fundamental speed limit, or so it was reported last week. The speed of light is the ultimate limit on travel in the universe, and the basis for Einstein’s special theory of relativity, so if the finding stands up to scrutiny,...