Faster Than Light Fiasco
March 31, 2012 in Michio Kaku, New Age Science, TED by theadmin

Cropped image from a larger one of Michio Kaku at a guest speaking event. Personal pic. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Last September a group of physicists fired a beam of subatomic particles called neutrinos from the CERN particle accelerator, near Geneva, to Italy. They were left gasping for breath when the neutrinos apparently outraced a beam of light by a distance of 60 feet over a distance of 454 miles, violating Einstein’s famous dictum that nothing can travel faster than light.
But the floodgates finally burst open last week when a second group of physicists announced that they redid the entire experiment and found that Einstein was correct all along: Their neutrinos traveled at precisely the speed of light, not faster or slower. more…
By MICHIO KAKU

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