Repeated experiments at the facility revealed the same results. This would have meant the neutrinos had traveled faster than light speed to get there. Researchers were surprised to discover the neutrinos arriving earlier than expected, by a difference of 60 nanoseconds. The original OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) experiment had a beam of neutrinos fired from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, aimed at an underground detector array located 730 miles away at the Gran Sasso facility, near L∪quila, Italy. ∺ccording to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos flight and an electronic card in a computer, Cartlidge reported. ![]() ![]() Now, according to a breaking news article by Edwin Cartlidge on AAAS ScienceInsider, the neutrinos may be cleared of any speed violations. ![]() The speed of light has been a key component of the standard model of physics for over a century, an Einstein-established limit that particles (even tricky neutrinos) werent supposed to be able to break, not even a little. Ever since the news came out on September 22 of last year that a team of researchers in Italy had clocked neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, the physics world has been resounding with the potential implications of such a discovery that is, if it were true.
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