Le Current Event - Faster than the Speed of Light!

A research team in Geneva has found a subatomic particle called a neutrino that has been recorded as going faster than the speed of light. This is a major event in the scientific community, and is being met with a lot of skepticism. The particle has "rocked one of the very pillars of physics." Einstein's theory of relativity (nothing can go faster than the speed of light) does not fit with the neutrino's speed of 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. However, there is some possible error to these calculations, and scientists are continually rechecking their information. Nothing is going to explode now that this particle has actually been discovered, "But the finding will fundamentally alter our understanding of how the universe operates, physicists said." Einstein's theory has never been proved wrong until now, and John Ellis says it underlines "pretty much everything in modern physics." It will be interesting to see if this finding can be disproved, and if it can't, what the neutrino means for the future of physics.

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