Einstein can be wrong?

On September 22, scientists from the European Center for Atomic Research (CERN) shocked the world physics village when they announced they had detected neutrino molecular particles capable of moving faster than velocity. the light. This finding, if true, would upset all modern physics.

>>>Detecting particles moving "faster than light"

The team fired a stream of neutrinos from an underground accelerator at CERN, outside Geneva (Switzerland) to the Italian Gran Sasso Laboratory, 731km away. They were astounded to find the speed of neutrinos up to 300,000.6 km / s, faster than the speed of light about 6 km / sec.

'Neutrinos arrive at the destination faster than nanoseconds (1/1 billion seconds) compared to the 2.3-millisecond time interval (1 / 1,000th of a second) of light,' said physicist Antonio Ereditato of CERN. He said the error of this result is about 10 seconds nano.

"This result is surprisingly large," said expert Ereditato. "We just want to measure the rate of neutrinos and not expect anything special ." CERN scientists have spent three years researching and adding six months to 'check, test, recheck everything' before announcing information.

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'When we get such a crazy result, we have to make sure there are no errors or no calculations. We spent months checking and checking and found no errors. '

Challenging relativism

A very small deviation but very big meaning. Relativity of the great physicist Albert Einstein is one of the most important pillars of modern physics. According to relativity, nothing in the universe can move faster than the speed of light. A century of observation and execution shows that this theory is very accurate. It is one of the most important elements of modern physics to explain the existence and operation of the universe and all things.

'If CERN's experiment is proven correct, it is clear that this result is a great revolution and will change the whole foundation of modern physics - French physicist Pierre Binetruy says - The accuracy of both general relativity and special relativity will become false '. CERN's theoretical physicist Alvaro de Rujula also affirmed: 'If this experiment is correct, then obviously we don't understand anything about physics and the universe'.

According to basic particle physicist Stephen Parke of the US Femi National Accelerator Laboratory (Femilab), if indeed there are fundamental particles moving faster than the speed of light, in theory, people are completely can go back in time.'Then you can become your grandmother. That's a big problem ' - Parke said in a funny way.

Parke and astronomer John Learned of the University of Hawaii argue that if CERN's research results are true, there may also be another explanation that neutrinos can go 'short cuts' in space through other dimensions.

'Theory of relativity is only true in space - four-dimensional time (three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time), so if there is a fifth dimension, the elementary particle can pass through and go faster than the speed of light' - Learned hypothesis.

Need verification

However, many international physicists have questioned CERN's experimental results.'This result is beyond imagination, so I need to be cautious. "There may have been measurement errors," Professor Weber said. Physics professor Dave Goldberg of Drexel University (USA) also said that the world science community will not be too hasty to accept this experimental result.

Talking to PV, Dr. Phan Bao Ngoc - head of the physics department, International University (National University of Ho Chi Minh City) - also said that the difference between the velocity of neutrino measured in the experiment and transport. The speed of light is in the range of 6 sigma (1 sigma is the error of the measurement), so it is not possible to determine the accuracy of the test results.

'CERN experts have done everything they can, but before throwing Einstein into the fire, we need another independent experiment to test this result' - theoretical physicist John Ellis CERN confirmed.

Even CERN experts who conducted the experiment said they decided to publish the results because they wanted international scientists to verify the results.'Hopefully another experiment will bring about the same results - expert Ereditato asserts - I will feel relieved then.'

According to neutrino physicist Chang Ke Jung - the spokesperson for the T2K multinational elementary particle physics experiment program, CERN's experiment will soon be reestablished at T2K's lab. Femilab scientists will also conduct similar experiments within the next six months.