Conclusion about super particles 'faster than light'

Last year, physicists surprised the world by announcing neutrinos could move at a faster rate than light.

The statement caused a stir, as it would shake Einstein's entire theory, which asserts that no object could move faster than light. Most opinions are skeptical and many scientists have experimented on their own to test the authenticity of the statement.

According to LiveScience , some test results will be released this spring. 'It is difficult to find errors if only read on paper,' commented Rob Roser, a particle physicist at the National Accelerator Laboratory Ferrmi (Fermilab) in Illinoise (USA). 'What you need is a measurement from a third party. We will really know what happened '.

Last September, scientists at CERN announced it
measuring neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light.

The shocking discovery of ultrafast particles was first reported in September 2011, when physicists at CERN (Switzerland) announced that an experiment named OPERA had measured neutrino breaking speed limits. degree of light.

In fact, not only are physicists outside skeptical, but even members of OPERA are equally shocked. Mr. Sergio Bertolucci, CERN's Director of Research joked that this discovery is hard to believe because 'Italy has never had any discoveries ahead of its time'.

Can not help but believe

CERN immediately called on experts to check and try to repeat their experiment to either confirm, or deny the result. A number of OPERA experimental replication programs have been deployed around the world, from Japan to Fermilab.

Last fall, MINOS lab fired neutrino particles from near Chicago to a mine in northern Minnesota. However, they do not have suitable equipment and enough sensitivity to prove and reject OPERA's results. This year, this lab has installed new equipment and conducted a retry.

'They started collecting data for two weeks. I think we will hear results in May or June , 'Roser said.

Even so, even if the experiments conducted by MINOS measure neutrinos moving faster than light, we cannot rule out all experiments that have systematically made a mistake. But of course, if 'three or four experiments around the world produce a single result, it cannot be unconvinced,' Roser said.