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Friday, 23 September 2011

Neutrinos, faster than light?

Posted on 17:42 by simmo
Check it out:  Tiny Neutrinos May Have Broken Cosmic Speed Limit
Neutrinos are among the weirdest denizens of the weird quantum subatomic world. Once thought to be massless and to travel at the speed of light, they can sail through walls and planets like wind through a screen door. Moreover, they come in three varieties and can morph from one form to another as they travel along, an effect that the Opera experiment was designed to detect by comparing 10-microsecond pulses of protons on one end with pulses of neutrinos at the other.
Emphasis added.  Utterly mind-boggling, even if they don't turn out to be faster than light.

Credit to my history professor for mentioning this in class!
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