Neutrino Faster Than Light
The opera team made headlines after they suggested neutrinos traveled 0 002 faster than light thus violating einstein s theory of special relativity.
Neutrino faster than light. A faster than light neutrino walks into a bar. The head of an experiment that appeared to show subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light has. A clock on an electronic board ticked faster than its expected 10 mhz frequency lengthening the reported flight time of neutrinos thereby somewhat reducing the seeming faster than light effect. Yet opera s faster than light neutrino data persisted.
You d never no matter how much energy you put into yourself be able to overtake it. Less than a year later physicists realized that faulty wiring had mimicked a faster than light finding and neutrinos went back to the realm of cosmically law abiding particles. A comprehensive framework for lorentz violations is the standard model extension sme. A retired physicist robert ehrlich from george mason university claims that the neutrino travels faster than light and is very likely a tachyon any hypothetical particle.
The first measurements of neutrino speed were made in the early 1980s using pulsed pion beams produced by pulsed proton beams hitting a target. The measurement of faster than light particles was done by weighing them. The glitch s effect was to decrease the reported flight time of the neutrinos by 73 ns making them seem faster than light. The opera results were debunked months ago.
The next step would be to seek independent confirmation outside of opera itself which is common practice. Robert ehrlich claims that neutrino travels faster than light and is very likely a tachyon. The higgs for example was observed by both the atlas and cms experiments. We don t serve your kind in here.
Image caption the results of the neutrino experiment shook the world of physics. If the neutrino always moved at the speed of light it would be impossible to move faster than the neutrino. The famous faster than light neutrino result appears to be a mistake caused by a faulty fiber optic connection.