Faster Than Light Neutrinos (maybe): Field Trip!
Come with us to Italy to find out what went into measuring the FTL neutrinos. Tweet it - http://bit.ly/t4jB3x Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/vB5ohN minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bi...
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This fall, physicists in Italy published results suggesting that neutrinos travel faster thanlight - significantly faster. If true, this is really big news in physics, and of coursemost scientists are greeting the results with skepticism… why, you might ask? Well, theyfly in the face of the well-established and experimentally supported theories of specialand general relativity. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.So let's go visit the OPERA experiment in Italy and try to catch some neutrinos! Thekind researchers looking for the Higgs Boson at the LHC in Switzerland are already crashingprotons into each other to create explosions of subatomic particles – and luckily someof those particles are neutrinos which fly straight through the earth&am...
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This fall, physicists in Italy published results suggesting that neutrinos travel faster thanlight - significantly faster. If true, this is really big news in physics, and of coursemost scientists are greeting the results with skepticism… why, you might ask? Well, theyfly in the face of the well-established and experimentally supported theories of specialand general relativity. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.So let's go visit the OPERA experiment in Italy and try to catch some neutrinos! Thekind researchers looking for the Higgs Boson at the LHC in Switzerland are already crashingprotons into each other to create explosions of subatomic particles – and luckily someof those particles are neutrinos which fly straight through the earth&am...
