http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-science-light-idUSTRE78L4FH20110922
Should take it with a grain of salt, as it hasn't been confirmed yet, but if this is true, this is HUGE news :o
Hey its Science. Ill just w8 for follow up stories and tests like scientist do. Thanks for pointing this out.
also this is related that I found interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
Finding a superluminal particle is a great feat indeed, but I have a bad feeling about tests like this. Everything about LHC makes me mad.
Well, shit.
Read this earlier, if this is true, that's kinda awesome.. Makes you wonder what Einstein missed :P
Well, it's not like there weren't a number of problems with the special theory of relativity as it stands. ::)
But yeah, if this particular case was in a vacuum, this is great news(which is what I'm assuming).
Though it's not like particles exhibiting superluminal speeds under certain conditions hasn't already been accomplished.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
And of course, in theory, tachyonic particles, which is what this is about. Tachyonic neutrinos..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
http://www.xkcd.com/955/
Moar details!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/scientists-question-neutrinos