Thread: Faster the the speed of light.. err neutrino.

Looks like light is getting beat.
Incredible if confirmed.
BBC News - Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.

Scientists claim to have broken the absolute speed barrier - particles travelling faster than the speed of light. : worldnews

RobotRollCall comments on Why exactly can nothing go faster than the speed of light?

OD posted!!! does this mean MC server is updated?

It's on the list 1.8.1 or 1.9 leak?

better go 1.8.1 - just to be safe ;p

and can we keep the current world?

speed of light exceeded :o .... but lets not dwell on such trivial things... is the Minecraft Server updated!? with the current world?

Well if you compress the map and put it into a zip file. I could download it for you and edit it offline if you would like me to take a stab at that? See if we can remove that dogey area and replace it with nice clean area?

MCEdit: Minecraft World Editor (Compatible with MC Beta 1.8!) - Minecraft Forum

EDIT: ill post this in the MC thread also.

Back on topic
The paper is here http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1109/1109.4897.pdf

Haven't finished reading it yet but wonder if they missed something simple like the movement of the earth. Physicist have missed just as simple things in the past.

Not that I doubt that as a whole, we really don't know shit about the universe and how it works... and this could well be correct, but I am leaning toward this being an error in calculations. I mean, there's a lot to work out when something is travelling that far on a planet spinning round a star.

Then again, science is not my strong point. I'll just nod and gesture a little to look smart.