Neutrinos travels faster than light, puzzling results from CERN

Today,in the morning, a ground breaking news has caught my attention- “Faster than light particle found , the scientists claim that ‘Neutrinos’ travels faster than light.”

According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, nothing can go faster than the speed of light.
But the researchers on the Opera (CERN) claimed that- The pulse of hi-energy neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory (which is about 730km away), seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.¹

There are a lots of experiments have been undertaken and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the speed of light until now.

The claim was met with skepticism, with one outside physicist calling it the equivalent of saying you have a flying carpet. In fact, the researchers themselves are not ready to proclaim a discovery and are asking other physicists to independently try to verify their findings. ²

Now the question is-”Did neutrino really can travel faster than the light?” The result of that experiment may suggest that but still it is too early to jump to a conclusion.

Dr Ereditato said,”My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing – then I would be relieved,we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result – because it is crazy. And of course the consequences can be very serious.” ³

The new discovery might forces the scientist to go back and revise the long-established Theory of Relativity. Let’s wait and see what happen next.

References:
1. Physicist Matt Strassler’s Blog
2. The New York Times
3.BBC News

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