According to claims by scientists at the world’s largest physics lab (CERN), a neutrino beam fired from one of their particle accelerators has managed to break the speed of light and travel from Geneva to a lab in Italy at a speed ~0.0025% faster than the cosmic speed barrier.
CERN says a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near Geneva to a lab 454 miles (730 kilometers) away in Italy traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference statistically significant. But given the enormity of the find, they still spent months checking and rechecking their results to make sure there was no flaws in the experiment.
If independent tests will confirm the finding, it will probably be one of the most important moments in the history of science. Why? Because it would require a reexamination of basically all physics done in the last century, as all of it has been based around the understanding that Einstein’s relativity theory is correct.
It could change everything we think we know about the universe.
