Breaking news in the world of physics, researchers at CERN have managed to accelerate neutrinos beyond the speed to light.
The theory is that as an object approaches the speed of light, its mass becomes infinite. So technically, it would take an infinite amount of energy to move the object, that’s more than all the energy in the universe. Therefore, only an object with zero mass (protons) can reach the speed of light.
But apparently, the theory was wrong. In experiments conducted by scientists at CERN, neutrinos (extremely small subatomic particles, usually a product of nuclear reactions) reached a target 60 nanoseconds (0.00000006 seconds) before light would have.
Now there’s a lot of room for error since the difference is so small, but multiple tests were conducted and the same trend occurred. But until this has been verified by other scientists, we must accept that these findings could be flawed.
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