The speed limit was smashed at Italy’s OPERA detector (Image: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Update: The OPERA collaboration subsequently established that the effects reported in this article were not the result of neutrinos travelling at faster than the speed of light, but faulty timing equipment in their detector
Editorial: “History is moving at light speed“
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SUBATOMIC particles have broken the universe’s fundamental speed limit, or so it was reported last week. The speed of light is the ultimate limit on travel in the universe, and the basis for Einstein’s special…
