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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Latest Research about Speed of light


As we all know that physicists continue to research with the mysteries of the universe, there was one rule at least that seemed inviolable: Einstein's theory that nothing could travel more than the speed of light.

Today scientists in Geneva however are   unfolding a stunning piece of research that could disprove this law - and can change our entire perception of time and space.
They measured the time it took neutrinos - a type of sub atomic particle - to travel the 730km distance from Geneva to a sister lab in Italy.
To their astonishment, they discovered out that the neutrinos seemed to have been recorded traveling 60 nanoseconds, or a billionth of a second, faster than light
Researcher and particle physicist Dario Autiero was part of the team.

"It is the first time that we have experimental evidence of a particle traveling faster than light, which is completely unexpected in physics as we know it," Autiero said.
Neutrinos are mysterious sub-atomic particles which can pass undetected through matter, including the human body.
The most common particle in the universe, they originate from the sun, and radioactive disintegration.
More than a century after Einstein presented his special theory of relativity, this discovery - if accurate - could revolutionize modern-day physics.
What do you think  about this research from the genius minds???

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