[bigheadfred]

everything we know about the universe is wrong

Painting with a pretty broad brush. Everything THEY know...

[Slicksadick]

...these same scientists immediately requested that other labs around the world try to replicate the experiment.

The way science used to work, the global warming guys should try this method.

[KarlInOhio]

The implications of such a discovery are so mind-boggling, however, that these same scientists immediately requested that other labs around the world try to replicate the experiment.

Everyone knows that real scientists (like climatologists) bury the raw data, claim that their results are undeniable and set up the stake for a heretic burning for anyone who denies their claims.

A 60 nanosecond difference over 454 miles would be 0.0025% faster than the speed of light. There's lots of room for experimental error of that scale.

[Dr. Thorne]

Everything we know about the universe is wrong.

Nope. I know that my Redeemer liveth.

[Tanniker Smith]

Was that faster than twitter?

And I thought that the science was settled?

[blasater1960]

Come one people...according to the leftist godless scientists like Lawrence Krauss the universe was created from a random quantum fluctuation and it happened without a “god”. End of story./sarc

[Tublecane]

“then everything we know about the universe is wrong”

Even if faster than light travel is possible, this isn’t true. It’s hyperbole. Was everything we knew about the universe wrong when Newton was proved wrong? No. We still follow him, in the limited shpere where he applies (i.e. inbetween atoms and planets), like we’ve done since the 17th century. We’ve stuck with Einstein despite his system being overturned by quantum physics, which some people date to five years before his development of the Special Theory of Relativity.

We will stick with nearly everything we know, if this is true, except that which is directly affected by the possibility of faster than light travel.

[Michael Barnes]

Story on /. says that what was not taken into account was gravity and its distortion of time.

"Two weeks ago, researchers claimed particles called neutrinos were travelling faster-than-light and violating the laws of special relativity. But now it looks as though general relativity might be behind the experiment's unusual result. An independent analysis claims that the original experiment, known as OPERA, failed to take into account differences in earth's gravitational field between the neutrino source and the OPERA detector. As Nature News reports, gravity can distort time according to Einstein's theory, and the effect could explain why neutrinos appear to arrive 60 nanoseconds ahead of schedule. The OPERA team is now reviewing the new analysis."

[steveyp]

The speed of light is inviolable. The science is settled. Deniers.

[I am Richard Brandon]

Maybe the receiving site was moving towards the sending site (e.g. the Earth's rotation) in terms of a fixed point in the Universe. The neutrinos, which are notoriously indifferent to the medium they are passing through, would therefore have less distance to travel and everything would be alright.

[djf]

There is pretty good theory/mathematics now that show FTL is possible.

The only limitation being that you cannot travel AT the speed of light.

How that works with the Lorentz transformations, I am not sure.

Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field:
Gravity and Electromagnetism Redefined
John Brandenburg, Ph.D.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“Man will never break the sound barrier....it’s impossible”

[aruanan]

Gone in 60 nanoseconds - ( Faster than light possible? )

Gravity, though not waves in gravity, is faster than light. A device that detects the gravity of the sun will indicate a location in the sky where the sun actually is, rather than where it appears to be, which would not be the case if solar gravity were no speedier than the light coming from the sun.

[Larry Lucido]

Neutrinos fired

After they were fired, they showed up at "Occupy Wall Street" within 60 nanoseconds.

[JoeFromSidney]

The fundamental axiom of Einstein’s theory of relativity is the absolute prohibition on speed faster than light.

Not quite correct. The fundamental axiom of Einstein's theory is that the speed of light is the same for all observers, regardless of their velocity. The speed of light as a speed limit is a consequence of this constancy. Should this experiment with neutrinos turn out to be correct, we'd have to go back and examine whether different observers (moving at different velocities) measure different values for the speed of light.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

...if that did happen on this Orient Express hurtling between Switzerland and Italy, then everything we know about the universe is wrong.

Stand by, film at 11:00...

Regards,
GtG