Saturday, 9 June 2012

It's Official: Neutrinos Can't Beat Speed Of Light

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Back in September 2011, a team of particle physicists detected neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light as they traveled from CERN to the Gran Sasso lab. They smashed the universal speed limit by 60 nanoseconds - a result that was constant, even after 15,000 repetitions of the process.

But now, those same physicists at the CERN laboratory have put the final nail in the coffin for the idea that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light. They also confirmed that the groundbreaking results from 2011 can be blamed on faulty equipment.

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