On Thursday night Antonio Ereditato, leader of the Opera experiment at the lab in Switzerland, said beams of neutrinos, or subatomic particles, consistently arrived about 60 nanoseconds sooner on a 730km journey from Cern outside Geneva to the Gran Sasso underground lab in central Italy than if they would have been travelling at the speed of light – about 300,000km per second.
Financial Times, 12:23am Friday September 23rd, 2011
Experiment breaks speed of light barrier
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By Clive Cookson
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Scientists at Cern, the world's largest physics laboratory, could smash what has been a fundamental tenet of science for more than a century
Read the full article at: http://on.ft.com/oEKoPb
Financial Times, 12:23am Friday September 23rd, 2011
Experiment breaks speed of light barrier
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By Clive Cookson
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Scientists at Cern, the world's largest physics laboratory, could smash what has been a fundamental tenet of science for more than a century
Read the full article at: http://on.ft.com/oEKoPb
