Uh Oh: Neutrinos Are Still Going Faster Than Light

Remember a few months ago, when a group of scientists observed subatomic particles going faster than the speed of light, possibly overturning one of the foundational laws of Einsteinian physics? They just did it again. Or for the first time? Who can tell! Time is meaningless now!

The same group of researchers, Opera, repeated their experiment and found the same result: neutrinos beamed from the CERN facility in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy showed up 58 billionths of a second faster than should theoretically be possible. Faster than light itself! They even changed one part of the experiment and still the neutrinos beat out light:



Of course, before you get excited and start smashing all your clocks with a hammer, be aware that scientists are acting pretty cocky about the whole thing: "One [interpretation] is that they have stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery; the other, on which I would place my bet, is that they are still making and not finding the very same error," CERN theorist Alvaro de Rujula told The New York Times.

The third and most likely interpretation, over which the physics-industrial complex is effecting a massive cover-up, is that Time Cube is real.

[NYT, image of CERN via Shutterstock]