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originally newton and other scientists thought the fastest thing was light but recently scientist's have found some neutrinos that are faster than light and mean that one day we might even be able to time travel!
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Info: Stop the presses! Hold the back page!
Recently, there was a huge major hoo-hah in news publications around the world
reporting that scientists in Switzerland and Italy had evidence that some of their
neutrinos had traveled faster than light speed. This is not the way that scientific
discoveries are announced. After the brouhaha simmered down and the attention
of the general public shifted to the next big thing, the scientists involved got down
to the business of actually figuring out what they really had. They soon found that
they did not actually have what everybody was telling them they had. In fact, the
whole story was based on preliminary data that was so flimsy and sloppy, and the
incident was so outrageously handled, that the manager of that particular neutrino
project resigned. Scientists have still not found credible evidence to indicate that
anything has traveled faster than light-speed, and the best Physics still says that
it's not possible for anything to do so. Sorry. I know how disappointed you must feel.
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Which is that thing faster than light?
the thing which is faster than light is neutrinos which is 25parts per million faster than speed of the light, its scientifically proved.
What is faster than a neutrino?
A photon. Neutrinos have mass and therefore must travel at less than the speed of light. Photons of light travel at the speed of light.
Is neutrinos faster than light?
No.
How much more faster does a neutrino go than the speed of light?
Some recent experiments (2010 and 2011) suggested that neutrinos might be massless and travel very slightly faster than the speed of light (0.003 %). However, these are at odds with measurements that show neutrinos and light photons travelling at roughly the same speed. Further experiments are planned to test how photons and neutrinos are affected by the medium they traverse. If neutrinos do have mass, by the theory of relativity they cannot reach or exceed light speed.
What is the only wonder still standing?
It is the speed of neutrinos. Why they are faster than the speed of light? Ckeck results of recent LHC experiments.
What is the name of particles that travel faster than light?
neutrinos
What are some interesting scientific discoveries of 2011?
scientists found that neutrinos (subatomic particles) travel faster than the speed of light
Do neutrinos travel at the speed of light?
No, neutrinos have been shown to have a small non-zero mass. They can't get to c (the speed of light in a vacuum). The only thing a supernova can eject at the speed of light is photons. Update: Recently an experiment has measured neutrinos traveling above the speed of light. An explanation is yet to be offered.
How was a neutrino accelerated to sppeds greater than light by the scientists at CERN recently in September?
First of all, even the CERN scientists are not convinced that the neutrinos did, indeed, travel to the detector at a speed faster than that of light. They are fairly certain they've made some mistake, but they just haven't yet figured out what it was. Secondly, neutrinos can not be accelerated. If they began at a certain speed, there is NO WAY anyone could make them go faster. If, indeed, the CERN scientists have not made a mistake, this would only mean that neutrinos begin their lives at a speed faster than light. Creating neutrinos is easy -- scientists need only set up a beam of particles that decay into neutrinos, then wait for the original particles to do so. Detecting them is the problem.
Is there anything faster than the speed of light-?
Recent experiments at CERN suggest that neutrinos travel faster than light, but this experiment has not been replicated anywhere else and needs significant backing before it is to be accepted as a phenomenon.
Is it true that lions can run faster than the speed of light?
Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light, and nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. The faster an object travels, the heavier it gets. An object traveling near the speed of light would weigh countless tons and be too heavy to move. Neutrinos (sub atomic particles) which might travel faster than light have no mass and are not effected by the increase in weight with the increase in speed. Lions can only run about 20 mph, much slower than the speed of light. Cheetahs can only run about 25 mph. again, much slower than light speed.
What is faster than speed of light?
AnswerAccording to our current understanding of physics, it seems that nothing can go faster than the speed of light.AnswerThere are these subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel 60 nanoseconds faster than light. Unfortunately, that means Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity is wrong. So, theoretically, you can time travel and be your own grandmother.
