FTL FTW!

Man oh man, CERN does it again. In this article the physics lab announces that they confirmed their earlier finding of faster-than-light neutrinos.

If this finding is again confirmed by new and independent experiments it implies an enormous paradigm shift in our understanding of the universe. Nothing goes faster then light, and if something seems to outspeed c* it's a flaw in either measurement or understanding. Ineffable c is the limit, period, or so we thought.

The scientists involved are commendably cautious in their refusal to speculate on the cause of this spectacular result. It will require a lot more testing by different people in different facilities to underpin this revolutionary outcome. Then, and only then, can we safely assume that our standard model is broken, special relativity is fatally flawed, and we do not begin to understand our universe to the degree we thought we did even three months ago.

Exiting times! Had I the funds and the time I'd go back to university in an instant to study physics. It has not been this cool and exiting since Feynmann taught at Caltech. I hope the find is verified. FTL FTW!


* c denotes the speed of light in a vacuum, 2.998×10^8 meters per second.