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The claim comes from an independent team of researchers working at the Gran Sasso facility in Italy – the same laboratory as the group who shocked the world with their physics-defying announcement in September.
That experiment, known as OPERA, seemed to show that tiny particles known as neutrinos fired from the CERN research centre in Switzerland had arrived at Gran Sasso a fraction of a second faster than light would have done.
Because Einstein's theory of special relativity states that nothing can travel faster than light, the results run contrary to an assumption on which much of modern physics is based.
Proof that the OPERA team was correct would fundamentally alter our understanding the universe and raise the alarming possibility of time travel.
www.telegraph.co.uk
That experiment, known as OPERA, seemed to show that tiny particles known as neutrinos fired from the CERN research centre in Switzerland had arrived at Gran Sasso a fraction of a second faster than light would have done.
Because Einstein's theory of special relativity states that nothing can travel faster than light, the results run contrary to an assumption on which much of modern physics is based.
Proof that the OPERA team was correct would fundamentally alter our understanding the universe and raise the alarming possibility of time travel.
Speed-of-light experiment 'was wrong after all'
An experiment which appeared to contradict Einstein by showing that particles could travel faster than the speed of light is wrong after all, a rival group of scientists says.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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