Albert Einstein taught a graduate physics class, and when it came time to hand out the final his assistant noticed that it was the same final he handed out the year before, and asked him why he was passing out the same test. He replied saying “the questions are the same, but the answers have changed.” Modern science has come a long way, but we still have quite a way to go. To base ones entire belief in science is to base it on something that is in constant change. And now, there is a new development in the physics world that might change the very fundamental physics principles as we know it.
Scientist in Italy have measured neutrinos going faster than the speed of light. Neutrinos are like neutral electrons, almost no mass, and no charge. In fact it is estimated that billions of them go through each of us a minute. These Scientist have measured these subatomic particles going 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light, with an uncertainty factor of 10 nanoseconds.
According to Einstein’s theory nothing, not even the force of gravity, could surpass the speed of light, and in order for a particle that has even the smallest amount of mass to go the speed of light it would need an infinite amount of energy to do so. So this claim will change some of the basic principles that make up the foundation for much of physics as we know it.
However, they say they are still checking possible mistakes made, even though the past six months they have been asking physicist around the world and double checking and triple checking their work, with nothing to disprove it beyond a reasonable doubt. There is a lot of skepticism about this experiment. To have an extraordinary claim such as this, you must provide extraordinary evidence.
