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Neutrinos Obey The Speed Limit, After All

March 16, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Neutrinos have been cleared of allegations of speeding, according to an announcement issued today by CERN and the ICARUS experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory. Turns out they travel exactly as fast as they should, and not a nanosecond more. [...]

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Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside

February 29, 2012

Planning a little space travel to see some friends on Kepler 22b? Thinking of trying out your newly-installed FTL3000 Alcubierre Warp Drive to get you there in no time? Better not make it a surprise visit — your arrival may end up disintegrating anyone there when you show up. Remove this ad

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Faster Than Light? More Like Faulty Wiring.

February 22, 2012

You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the garage; it turns out neutrinos may not have broken any cosmic speed limits after all. Remove this ad

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Neutrinos Still Breaking Speed Limits

November 18, 2011

New test results are in from OPERA and it seems those darn neutrinos, they just can’t keep their speed down… to within the speed of light, that is! Remove this ad

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Particle Physics and Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos…Discuss.

October 3, 2011

On September 22, an international team of researchers working on the OPERA project at the Gran Sasso research facility released a paper on some potentially physics-shattering findings: beams of neutrinos that had traveled from the CERN facility near Geneva to their detector array outside of Rome at a speed faster than light. (Read more about [...]

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