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From Science Insider, there is a possible explanation for the recently observed "faster than light" neutrinos. The Neutrinos were clocked at faster-than-light speeds on their way form CRN in Switzerland to a detectors site in Italy.

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Professor Brian Cox, BBC universe front man and mop-haired CERN ATLAS physicist, bursts our bubble. "It doesn't mean I can build a new time machine to shine into the past and tell myself the share price performance of today," he says of the neutrino findings. Damn

The recent result that neutrinos appear to travel faster than light could be tested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), according to a pair of physicists in the US. Although the European particle accelerator would not be able to fully confirm or refute the result, it would be able to test a mechanism that is thought to occur when neutrinos move faster than light.

Explanations are coming in thick and fast for the seeming ability of subatomic particles to break the cosmic speed limit...

Particles that move faster than c might sound like pure sci-fi, but it wouldn't be as hard to square with current physics as you might think. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a message using a beam of neutrinos – nearly massless particles that travel at almost the...

In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim -- they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. In this film, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores one of the most dramatic scientific announcements for a generation. In clear, simple language he tells the story of the science we thought we knew, how it is being challenged, and why it matters.

Billions of ethereal particles known as neutrinos pour through us every second from the sun. Lately, scientists have realized that these mysterious entities do possess mass, albeit a small amount, despite previous predictions that they had none.

Scientists say that if neutrinos had been traveling faster than light, they would have been emitting radiation. This radiation was not detected.

In September, European scientists reported on tiny particles called neutrinos that traveled faster than the speed of light. Physicists, the scientists who study energy in all its forms, have long believed that nothing outpaces light in a race through empty space. Understandably, September’s announcement seemed too amazing to be true.