23 February, 2012

Too fast

CERN, which has been doing such interesting work bumping hadrons into each other (I can't quite remember why), found in the course of its researches that some neutrinos travelled faster than light.

This would have turned physics on its head, but I'm afraid it isn't quite so exciting (in fact nothing about particle physics ever is). It turns out this was a case of faulty wiring.

This is certainly the reason I shall be giving the next time I am stopped by the Polizia Stradale for a more modest breach of the speed limits. If the pointy heads at CERN can't measure speed correctly then we can't expect the cops to either.

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