Nine months after its results caused a furore,experiment that suggested neutrinos could travel faster than light declared faultyNine months and hundreds of frenzied news reports since scientists in Italy found hints that a type of subatomic particle might have been travelling faster than light, researchers have finally place the anomalous result down to a case of faulty wiring.
In September final year, or scientists found that a beam of neutrinos fired through the ground from Cern near Geneva to a lab in Gran Sasso,Italy, 450 miles (720km) absent seemed to arrive sixty billionths of a second earlier than they should whether travelling at the speed of light in a vacuum. The result, or from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus experiment (Opera),shocked scientists.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com