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    Default Speed of Light broken!

    Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.


    Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.


    The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists.


    In the meantime, the group says it is being very cautious about its claims.


    "We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.


    "We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.
    Looks like those FTL travel ships should be possible in the far future.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484


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    A thread discussing this can already be found here.

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