CERN: Our World is Changing...and quickly (perhaps faster than the speed of light)

Our World is Changing...quickly (faster then the speed of light)

Detectors at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics' Gran Sasso Laboratory have measured neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light; from the CERN physics center on the French-Swiss border, more than 450 miles away.

It was Einstein’s theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, that stated that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.

Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers at CERN, said: “We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing.” Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of physics. John Ellis, a theoretical physicist, said Einstein’s theory underlies “pretty much everything in modern physics”.

The results have so astounded researchers that American and Japanese scientists have been asked to verify the results before they are confirmed as a discovery. We lived in a universe that was explained by theories...correct me if I'm wrong, but it was called THE THEORY of Relativity, which doesn't in my opinion make Einstein out to be a scientist who believed in absolutes. Theories are just that...there meant to be broken by factual occurances that render all of our previous findings faulty. I for one do not find these sorts of discoveries dishearetening, but encouraging. It took 100 years for man to go from a horse and buggy to walking on the moon; why shouldn't it take just as long for man to prove that there is no absolute limit on speed.

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