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Old Sep 30, 2011 | 07:56 PM
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Supraluminal neutrinos

Remember those words.


CERN Press Release
"The OPERA result is based on the observation of over 15000 neutrino events measured at Gran Sasso,
and appears to indicate that the neutrinos travel at a velocity 20 parts per million above the speed of light"
 
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Old Sep 30, 2011 | 08:39 PM
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Particles Traveling Faster Than The Speed of Light? | Proslogion

(This guy was my first physics teacher over 20 years ago--he was extremely over-qualified for that teaching fellowship).

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Its not really a big deal. It just means that everything we ever believed about all matter in science was wrong. Most science is in some way or another based off the idea that matter cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

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