Today I had the most fun I've ever on Twitter, with the OPERA experiment at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider.
The blogosphere is ablaze with news that they have detected neutrinos travel faster than light seems to have.
If true, this would be the biggest scientific news of the century, turning one of the fundamental physical concepts.
There are obviously a lot of skepticism among scientists.
For an insightful explanation generally, see astronomer Phil Plait Bad message: travel faster than light discovered? Slow down, people
The fun began when a Twitter conversation between two physicist / mathematician types, Blake Stacey (@ blakestacey) and SC Kavassalis (@ sc_k) leads to Blake twitter:
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