This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.
Friday, September 23, 2011
60 nanoseconds faster than photons
Very, very interesting...
My youngest son Tim brought this to my attention when it broke yesterday. My first thought was "cold fusion" until I read it came out of CERN.
Here is the bottom line so far: "In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up 60 billionths of a second earlier than they would have done if they had traveled at the speed of light."
I think the irreplaceable XKCD already nailed this one.
ReplyDelete"When there's a news story about a study overturning all of physics... I just find excited believers and bet them $200 each that the new result won't pan out."
http://www.xkcd.com/955/