Can neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light?
Gran Sasso National Laboratory
News reports today suggest that researchers working on the Opera Collaboration, an experiment designed to test the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, have evidence which shows that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.
The experiment which involves sending neutrinos through the ground from CERN, Geneva, toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away in Italy could have profound implications for modern physics.
The research announcement has been met with intrigue but caution as the speed of light is the Universe’s ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics – as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity – depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.
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See the BBC’s news report here
A seminar about the findings will be webcast this afternoon at 15.00. To watch the live webcast go to http://webcast.cern.ch/
Tags: gran sasso, neutrino, particle physics, physics
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It is necessary to wait for details from physicists from CERN, Fermilab etc. But, on the basis of B.Sc. Physics knowledge (which may be considered as the level of a common reader), one can expect neutrinos to move with velocity greater than that of light. This is because neutrinos are mass-less and can not face the barrier of relativistic mass increase – set by Albert Einstein. So, I think, that neutrinos faster than light can not make a dent on Einstein’s prediction.
The answer to the chaos that will engulf the physics community following the Neutrino experiments at CERN has been available since 2005 in Frank Atkinson’s book ‘Time – The Hidden Dimensions of the Missing Physics’ and on his web site ‘Tempo Field Theory’ This theory shows how time dilation can explain the results. But don’t take my word for it, take the time youself to read his papers. One does not require B.Sc Physics knowledge to recognise the Tempo Field Theory is the one that has long been predicted.