OPERA

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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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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Special Relativity May Answer Faster-than-Light Neutrino Mystery

October 15, 2011

Oh, yeah. Moving faster than the speed of light has been the hot topic in the news and OPERA has been the key player. In case you didn’t know, the experiment unleashed some particles at CERN, close to Geneva. It wasn’t the production that caused the buzz, it was the revelation they arrived at the [...]

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Faster Than The Speed Of Light… OPERA Update

September 24, 2011

A few days ago, the physics world was turned upside down at the announcement of “faster than the speed of light”. The mighty neutrino has struck again by breaking the cosmic speed limit and traveling at a velocity 20 parts per million above light speed. To absolutely verify this occurrence, collaboration is needed from different [...]

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