time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
I suppose I should write something about the outcome of that whole faster-than-light neutrino situation, given that I’ve written so much about them already. But I’ll make this one quick. On Friday, scientists at CERN announced the results of their latest neutrino speed test, called the Icarus experiment. The final answer? Neutrinos do not travel …
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They could have changed the world as we knew it. Overturned one hundred years of accepted physics. Shattered one of the fundamental pillars of our understanding of the universe. Instead, it may have all come down to “bad wiring.”
There was a lot of excitement when research coming out of CERN suggested neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of light. The news was, of course, met with a lot of quirked eyebrows; you don’t just overthrow one of the greatest pillars of physics with a cloud of neutrinos and a difference of 64 …