On Thursday 22 September 2011 Prof. Dr. Antonio Ereditato, head of the department at the University of Bern, High Energy Physics, released an astounding press statement regarding the findings of an international team of scientists working at CERN and Gran Sasso on a project called the Opera collaboration.
Their findings show that they have recorded subatomic particles (neutrinos) travelling faster than the speed of light, 186,282 miles per second. Going faster than the speed of light is something that is not supposed to happen. Ever. It is considered to be the Universes ultimate speed limit. Einstein’s theory that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, underlies pretty much everything in modern physics. The experiments, conducted over the last 3 years show findings of neutrinos pumped underground from CERN to Gran Sasso (730 km) arriving at their destination 60 nanoseconds faster than light could have. Light would have covered the distance in 2.4 thousandths of a second but this was faster. 60 billionths of a second faster. That might not seem like much but conceptually this is huge.