Friday, July 6, 2012

Unreal Finding May Be Just That

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Equipment in Italy that may be at fault for indicating neutrinos could outpace light, a result that—if true—could overturn much of particle physics.

It's looking more like Einstein was right after all.

In September, scientists in Geneva made the startling announcement that they had recorded ghostly particles known as neutrinos apparently traveling faster than the speed of light—a finding that challenged Einstein and threatened to upend the entire field of modern particle physics.

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