It seems they've done it again - checking their previous experiment it appears that scientists in Italy have again made a neutrino - or lots of them, who's counting? - go faster than light. A neutrino - of course you knew this - is like an electron but without the electric charge, a sort of 'ron'.
I'm sure this is all frightfully important but it seems to me to have its comic side. A scientist on BBC Radio this morning said they were going to test it by sending neutrinos from Chicago up towards the Canadian border. 'Some of them', presumably referring to the less discerning neutrinos, 'just keep on going.'
This raises all kinds of questions about time travel. Sorry if you've heard that one before. 'Which one?' you ask. Come along, we're now supposed to be able to see things before they happen.
'We don't serve neutrinos here'
A neutrino walks into a bar.
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