On another note this just made my day, im a bit of a science nerd
Neutrinos Faster Than Light of the Day: Back in September, scientists at CERN claimed to have found that certain subatomic particles can move faster than the speed of light.
When the scientific community lost its collective mind due to these findings, CERN was pressured into re-doing the experiment, but with some changes that many felt would account for the initial results.
They recently performed the new experiment, which showed the same results, while ruling out a potential source of error in the measurements.
In the original experiment, beams of neutrinos were fired from CERN to the Gran Sasso lab in Italy, which is 450 miles away. The neutrinos appeared to arrive sixty billionths of a second earlier than they should have.
In the new experiment, the length of the beams that were sent were greatly reduced, thus removing the task of having to determine the shape and duration of the beam, allowing researchers to focus solely on when the particles arrived. The results still appeared to be the same.
CERN isn’t finished trying to rule out all possible sources of error, including something as simple as making sure that the clocks at both laboratories are perfectly synchronized.
If it turns out the results are not flawed, the findings could show that it’s possible to send information back in time.
Many still feel that these findings are the result of some sort of experimental error, but just in case, I’m gonna start stocking up on dinosaur hunting gear.