The OPERA team made headlines after they suggested neutrinos traveled 0.002 faster than light, thus violating Einstein's theory of special relativity. New results, announced today in Japan, contradict those announced last September by a 170-member crew working with the OPERA particle detector in Italy's subterranean Gran Sasso National Laboratory.
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Apparently a CERN/Gran Sasso team measured a. Five different teams of physicists have now independently verified that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos do not travel faster than light. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein's theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light. According to C&G, if the neutrinos were going faster than the speed of light they would lose some energy and the measured spectrum would change. CERNs experiment accelerated neutrinos to the speed of light and fired them from Geneva to a detector at. While the study's result won't spoil Einstein's theory of relativity, the discovery is still an important step forward in the world of particle physics. Elusive, nearly massive subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. Carrying Out the Faster-than-light Neutrino Test. Just recently, the team uncovered the fifth such "tau" neutrino, thus concluding the experiment. Between 20, researchers were able to shoot a beam of "muon" type neutrinos through the Earth - traveling a 730 kilometer distance from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to the Gran Sasso lab in Italy - and found that they had metamorphosed into "tau" type neutrinos on the other side. Why are we talking about this now? Well, scientists have finally completed the experiment's original goal, which was to see if neutrinos could shift from one type to another (also known as the Oscillation Project with Emulation-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) experiment). Washington: Neutrinos really travel faster than light, Italian scientists, who had recently detected the phenomenon, claimed following postive outcomes from. That, however, turned out to be an error, apparently due to some faulty testing equipment. During the course of an experiment, CERN scientists apparently discovered that neutrinos - tiny subatomic particles that travel near light speed - could possibly accelerate faster than light. About four years ago, CERN made a claim that sent shockwaves through the scientific community. Less than two weeks after the revelation that ghostly particles called neutrinos had been spotted travelling faster than the speed of light, physicists are saying they have found.