Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
by EREFUNDO on Friday November 18, 2011 @01:53AM
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Well that's exactly what will happen when anything moves faster than light, it will travel backwards in time. The real question is where is it getting infinite energy to break the light barrier? or are neutrinos the only particles with mass that will not be dragged by the Higgs field?
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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
by grannyg00se on Friday November 18, 2011 @02:56AM
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He said a new particle though. So something other than the neutrinos themselves, I suppose?
Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
by EREFUNDO on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:34PM
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It was a neutrino that was discovered moving faster than light at CERN, that is what I was referring to. Tyson also mentioned that it is likely a special type of neutrino already moving faster than light is the one being observed (tachyons). What they think we are seeing is a particle that has been moving faster than light but never accelerated to reach that speed, it has been moving at that velocity all the way since before the beginning of time itself.