Neutrino seem to be traveling faster than light.
Devin Powell
Website: Science news
September 23 2011
It was a painstaking process but it had to be done, the scientist working on the OPERA experiment had to check and recheck their data numerous times. Because not only would their discovery prove that neutrinos are faster than light it would also mean that Einstein’s theory of special relativity is wrong. According to the scientists calculations there’s one in a billion chance that they were seeing statistical fluke. Still this doesn’t mean that their data is accurate
Devin Powell
Website: Science news
September 23 2011
Neutrinos traveling faster than light?
Up until recently light was without doubt the fastest thing on earth. Now scientists working on Italy’s OPERA experiment say that that particles called neutrinos travel faster than light. This would put into question Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Currently few believe that the results will ultimately hold up, the implications and assumptions have surely created a fuss in the world of physics.
It was a painstaking process but it had to be done, the scientist working on the OPERA experiment had to check and recheck their data numerous times. Because not only would their discovery prove that neutrinos are faster than light it would also mean that Einstein’s theory of special relativity is wrong. According to the scientists calculations there’s one in a billion chance that they were seeing statistical fluke. Still this doesn’t mean that their data is accurate
The official results came on September 23 at the European Physics laboratory CERN near Geneva. The results were met with happiness and a barrage of doubts and questions from those who doubt the data and scrutinize the experiment for unknown sources of error that may mislead the physicists.
“This will be a tremendous revolutionary finding if it is true,” says Chang Kee Jung, one of the particle physicist at Stony Brook university in NY. He is also a spokes person for the T2K neutrino experiment in Japan.
Light that travels in a vacuum would have made the journey in 2.43 milliseconds. The Neutrinos made the journey in 60 nanoseconds less than light, according to atomic clocks synchronized by a satellite. The particles were traveling 0.0025 percent faster than light in a vacuum.
Personally I believe that the data should be rechecked by other scientists to ensure that it’s valid, because it could have been a miscalculation or a statistical fluke. Even though this may seem unlikely I still cannot believe that these particles are faster than light. For a very long time light has been the fastest thing. This would not only disprove many theories it would also mean that many measurements and comparisons would have to be redone.
Bibliography:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/334715/title/Neutrinos_seen_to_fly_faster_than_light
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