[Explorer89]

I think the trickiest part would be in the accurate measurement of the speed. Who is holding the stopwatch?

[tet68]

the cosmic speed limit — the speed of light — that was set by Albert Einstein in 1905.

He was fast that Einstein, the mafia killed him you know,
he knew too much...

[mnehring]

So what was their mass?

[Bullish]

I hope this is true.... Maybe they could finally fix my AM radio interference.

[P-Marlowe]

The Neutrinos are not traveling faster than the speed of light. They are traveling backwards through time.

[garjog]

Later in the article it says this could be evidence that particles travel trough other dimensions to break the speed limit.

That would mean that it might be possible to send communication signals through these other dimensions and perhaps get a message from the future.

Or have real time communication with someone on Mars (instead of the ten minute delay that light speed would require).

People in the 1860s had no idea of amazing discoveries of science in the following 140 years.

What will we witness in the coming years? Future time communication?

What if you could send a message to your past self? That could come in handy so that you could avoid stupid mistakes.

[Pontiac]

I haven’t spent any time keeping up on particle physics since high school (a long time ago) so maybe it is a stupid question, but how exactly do you accelerate a neutrally charged particle?

[Hunton Peck]

"Well, see, Darlin', me 'n' Snowman finally figured out
that we could do it by switchin' to Coors Light...."

[Neanderthal]

"But it is too soon for such mind-bending speculation. The Opera results will generate a rush of experiments aimed at confirming or repudiating it, according to Dr. Learned. “This is revolutionary and will require convincing replication,” he said."

I like this guy's scientific approach. Maybe we should ask him to check out global warming. Oh, wait. The science is "settled" on global warming, so no need for "replication."

[I see my hands]

Light speed deniers should be excluded from the debate.

[Shalmaneser]

Janet's eyes were shining... like a woman in love, or like a relativistic mathematician who has just found a new way to work a transformation. "So they've done it!" she said in a hushed voice.

"Done what?" I asked. She was certainly taking it in a big way; I hadn't realized she was that anxious to get home.

"Tommie, don't you see? They've done it, they've done it, they've applied irrelevance. Dr. Babcock was right."

"Huh?"

"Why, it's perfectly plain. What kind of a ship can get here in a month? An irrelevant ship, of course. One that is faster than light." She frowned. "But I don't see why it should take even a month. It shouldn't take any time at all. It wouldn't use time."

I said, "Take it easy, Janet. I'm stupid this morning—I didn't have much sleep last night. Why do you say that ship... uh, the Serendipity... is faster than light? That's impossible."

"Tommie, Tommie... look, dear, if it was an ordinary ship, in order to rendezvous with us here, it would have had to have left Earth over sixty-three years ago."

"Well, maybe it did."

"Tommie! It couldn't possibly — because that long ago non body knew that we would be here now. How could they?"

I figured back. Sixty-three Greenwich years ago... mama, that would have been sometime during our first peak. Janet seemed to be right; only an incredible optimist or a fortune teller would have sent a ship from Earth at that time to meet us here now. "I don't understand it."

"Don't you see, Tommie? I've explained it to you, I know I have. Irrelevance. Why, you telepaths were the reason the investigation started; you proved that "simultaneity' was an admissible concept , . . and the inevitable logical consequence was that time and space do not exist."

I felt my head begin to ache. "They don't? Then what is that we seem to be having breakfast in?"

"Just a mathematical abstraction, dear. Nothing more." She smiled and looked motherly. "Poor 'Sentimental Tommie.' You worry too much."

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Time For the Stars, 1956

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[Irishguy]

i want broadband at this speed!!!

[Born to Conserve]

Sounds like they’re equivocating. Are the neutrinos going faster than light in a vacuum, or just faster than light would through a material. The speed of light varies. Since neutrinos don’t interact with material, perhaps they don’t slow down, whereas photons do interact, and do slow down.

So are they saying that neutrinos go faster than light in a vacuum?

[roxtar221]

186,000 miles per second. Not just a good idea, it’s the law.

[CERNROCKS]

There is an excellent book out called - Bending The Ruler - Might be in second print. Lindemann Discussed this in depth and why Uncle Albert was incorrect in some of his assumptions. I think the book has a site by that name.

[Hatteras]

So... does this mean we will be able to build a headlight that enables us to see when we are traveling faster than the speed of light?

[Savage Beast]

Is it possible that neutrinos have no mass and are therefore not subject to Einstein’s equations? That seems to be about as likely as an ability to exceed the speed of light. I know that that hypothesis calls for a redefinition of energy.

[aruanan]

Some French guy, as well as someone in California, has been doing this for years, maybe over a decade (because I was still in grad school then) though using some other subatomic particle.

[CPOSharky]

Waht about Cherenkov radiation?