![]() “It is very, very remarkable if it’s true,” said Professor Neville Harnew, head of particle physics at Oxford University. ![]() The finding would seem to challenge Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity, and the long-established law of physics that nothing can exceed the speed of light. The 150 or so researchers on the Opera project will continue their research, he said, but now they want the worldwide scientific community to come up with “new ideas to explain or new experiments which should – could – confirm or disprove the effect.” “We concluded after a long scrutiny of all systematic uncertainties that we could not explain (the result) otherwise.” “However, we are confident in what we did and we think we did it correctly. “I was surprised, shocked,” by the findings, Antonio Ereditato, Opera spokesman at the University of Bern in Switzerland, told CNN. CERN is the home of the Large Hadron Collider. The report was published Friday by a group of researchers working on the so-called Opera experiment, based at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, in Switzerland. The physicists say that neutrinos sent 730 kilometers (453.6 miles) underground between laboratories in Switzerland and Italy arrived a fraction of a second sooner than they should have, according to the speed of light. ![]() ![]() Scientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light – a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature. ![]()
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