{"id":157329,"date":"2023-02-08T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/breaking-researchers-at-cern-break-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2023-02-08T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:23:04","slug":"breaking-researchers-at-cern-break-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/breaking-researchers-at-cern-break-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Researchers at CERN break \u201cThe Speed of Light\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-researchers-at-cern-break-the-speed-of-light4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light \u2013 a finding that could overturn one of Einstein\u2019s fundamental laws of the universe. Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, saidthat measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe now want colleagues to check them independently.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein\u2019s 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a \u201c<b>cosmic constant<\/b>\u201d and that nothing in the universe can travel faster. That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works. The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research center near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light \u2013 a finding that could overturn one of Einstein\u2019s fundamental laws of the universe. Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, saidthat measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}