60NS Over the Speed Limit

You've probably seen the T-shirt with police officer Einstein-"186000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's the law."

Well, just like you and I have likely fudged at least the 5MPH above the posted speed limit, it seems that neutrinos are a bit of a subatomic leadfoot. As best as folks from the CERN atom-smasher can figure, they were clocked at 60 nanoseconds over the speed of light. They've run as many double-checks as they know how, but the results still have the neutrinos coming in statistically significantly faster than light. Yes, they are that precise that 60NS can be significant and measurable.

Chances are there was something the folks that gave us the Web missed, since there are a lot of critics that are doing a lot of dis-CERN-ing. Messing with Einstein usually ends up like the jerks in the jerky ad messin' with Bigfoot; the scientist usually gets his research drop-kicked into the next area code.

However, might the neutrino be a smidge faster than an electron? It's a smidge lighter, if I recall my physics (a year's worth back in high school where I don't recall covering neutrinos, so take it with multiple grains of salt), so it may well be a smidge faster.

Comments

[Alan]

Because they are soooo tiny they were hypothesized years ago to explain the highly situational flaws in Einstein's work. Hismathematics do not work for unified theory and that started all this. These neutrinos have have been sought for years, now they are found. They were necessary for Grand Unified Theory (GUT, the real acronym). It is still a work in progress and the math only works in ten dimensions, most tiny and curled on themselves. This is why we cannot see them.

[Sören Backman]

Seems logic that it´s a little faster due to smaller mass/energy (?) Did they see it; I mean did they measure it going back in time??? Isn´t that predicted?

Well-read layman

Sören Backman Sweden

[Sören Backman]

Btw, don´t you mean photon?? "a smidge faster than an electron?"

SB