CERN physicists believe they have neutrinos pass at speeds faster than the observed velocity of light, a feat once thought impossible. Thousands of experiments were conducted to measure more precisely, and no results ever seen a particle breaking the limit.
But Dr. Ereditato and colleagues to conduct an experiment in the last three years suggest that neutrinos have just seems to do.
Neutrinos come in a variety of species and have recently been seen spontaneously switch from one type to another.
The team is preparing for a beam of one type, muon-neutrinos from CERN and send them to an underground laboratory of Gran Sasso, Italy, to see how many show as a different type, the tau neutrino.
In these experiments, the researchers noted that 60 particles billionths of a second faster than the light show would be about the same distance. This change is a tiny fraction, but it happens constantly.
The team measured the travel time of neutrinos grapes about 15,000 times, and reached a level of statistical significance that would include in scientific circles as an official discovery. If this is true to say that it is an important finding is an understatement both ways.
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