Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Found by 2nd Test

Recently scientists at the CERN Supercollider reported measuring Neutrinos that were traveling faster than light This produced a fire storm about what the discovery meant for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. While the answerer is that it just improves our understanding of with out destroying as some claim. At the need to have the discovery confirmed was being emphasized by the scientists involved.

Now scientists at the CERN have reported that a second test has provided the first confirmation of this amazing discovery. They concluded that further confirmation is needed from elsewhere in the world but this is encouraging.

If solidly confirmed these Tachyon Neutrinos would change the way other experiments are viewed. Quantum Mechanics has produced a number of experiments that suggest faster than light transmission and confirmed these Tachyon Neutrinos would show that it to be possible,

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Neutrinos Moving Faster than Light is not the Problem for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity that Some Claim.

The recent report by CERN that they measured neutrinos going faster than the speed of light by about 20 parts per million has made quite a stir. Given that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s these neutrinos were going 6 km/s faster than light which could easily be an experimental error.

It would not be a problem for Special Relativity since not traveling at or faster than the light only applies to particles with a real non zero rest mass. A particle like a photon that has a zero rest mass travels at the speed of light. Particles that travel faster than light have been speculated for years under the name tachyons. Tachyons would have a negative imaginary rest mass giving it a real non zero mass at speeds above the speed of light.

Also quantum effects like quantum tunneling provided another way around the light barrier by allowing particles to instantly skip over an area of space without actually going through it while traveling sub light through the space it does go through thus not violating Special Relativity.