The neutrinos move faster than the speed of light

A group of European scientists have suggested that neutrinos can travel faster than light velocity, acknowledging that Einstein was right and that subatomic elements, like all other matter, were limited by speed. of light.

Researchers working at the European Center for European Research (CERN) have triggered a storm in academia to publish experimental results showing that particles could move faster than the speed of light. Light is about six kilometers per second.

This discovery threatens modern physics and creates a major gap in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, proposed in 1905, which states that light has the maximum speed in the universe.

The velocity of the neutrinos is measured in the journey from the CERN giant underground laboratory near Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy, after traveling 723 kilometers

To complete the journey, the neutrinos should have taken 0.0024 seconds, but experiments showed that they reached the probes in Italy earlier than 0.00000006 seconds than expected.

But researchers participating in the international conference on neutrino physics and astrophysics, held in Kyoto's ancient capital of Japan, asserted that the previous results were false and that errors had occurred in the past. Measurement.

'The previous information in the 2011 neutrino experiment from CERN to Gran Sasso has been reviewed to assess the effects of equipment , ' the group said. " We conclude that the velocity of a neutrino is within the speed limit of light."

The initial findings were welcomed by both suspicion and eagerness. "If CERN's results are proven to be true, and subatomic particles can move faster than the speed of light, then I'll be eating my pants, directly on television," said Jim Al-Khalili. , professor of theoretical physics at the University of Surrey, England, said at the time.