Comments on: Faster-than-light Neutrinos could undermine Einstein

By: Nalliah Thayabharan

Nalliah Thayabharan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:13:00 +0000

In 1932 Nikola Tesla reported that neutrons are small particles, each carrying so small a charge and they travel with great velocity, exceeding that of light.
Experimental tests of Bell inequality have shown that microscopic causality must be violated, so there must be faster than light travel. According to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, nothing with nonzero rest mass can go faster than light. But zero rest mass particles can go faster than the light. Neutrinos have a small nonzero rest mass. Faster than light interactions are a necessity and they provide the non local structure of the universe. We should understand the relation between local and nonlocal events like the dynamics of universal structure. In any physical theory, it is assumed that there is some kind of nonlocal structure violates causality. If neutrinos are traveling faster than light, then neutrinos must be on the otherside of the light barrier going backwards in time, where the future can interact with the past.
There are lots of theories and research regarding this matter including Cherenkov radiation, Standard Model Extension, Heim theory, Novikov selfconsistency principle, Casimir effect, Hartman effect, Casimir vacuum & quantum tunnelling, Tachyons, etc.

- Nalliah Thayabharan

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:28:00 +0000

Flawed Experiment. First off, the speed of light still a theoretical limit. If you have a sub-atomic particle with mass, and the experiment shows that it moves faster than light, then by default, the theoretical limit of the speed of light should be increased increased. Nutrino’s pass through matter more effectively than photons, So I would be surprised if the photon’s in this experiment were absorbed by something they didn’t factor into the experiment.

Light’s particle is the photon, which has No mass. That’s because light is a pure energy form. An object with mass like the Neutrino cannot move faster than light. This Experiment also did not take into consideration the Quantum field effect, where particles can appear to exist in different places at the same time, based on who or what is observing them. Thus the Scientists them selves might be effecting the outcome just be observing the results.

“Imagination creates Knowledge” , Einstein

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:28:00 +0000

“Imagination creates Knowledge” , Einstein

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:56:00 +0000

There are some theories that neutrinos could be tachyonic, along with some other just as theoretical ideas like interaction with micro wormholes, micro black holes, dark matter, parallel worlds, and quantum effects because of its oscillation and weak interactivity.

So even if the results can be confirmed, there are still other possibilities that don’t need to violate relativity to explain the results, and that means it’ll be awhile before we know either way for sure. Especially since we still can’t prove or disprove many of those alternate theories yet.

By: Mohan Rajendran

Mohan Rajendran — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:31:00 +0000

Neutrinos have a small mass in the order of an electron’s mass. They’re so hard to detect cuz they do not interact with matter using electromagnetic forces unlike an electron which does. Neutron has a much larger mass and thus its easier to detect. :)

By: Matthew Chockey

Matthew Chockey — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:31:00 +0000

This really is quite interesting. At first, I wondered if maybe their results were flawed, not taking into account the rotation of the earth. However, as the earth rotates counter-clockwise (assuming the typical reference point of the north pole) and Italy is Southeast from CERN, the movement of the earth would not make the neutrinos appear to travel faster, but slower. Perhaps we’ve finally found a flaw in Einstein’s work. He was the brightest of his time, but his time has passed.

I do also find it a bit shocking that something that isn’t massless could exceed the speed of light. I suppose it’s not too late for them to find out they did something wrong though, so don’t start questioning physics and life too much yet, the results could change.

By: First Name

First Name — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:50:00 +0000

I wasn’t sure either, which was why I looked it up when I first read the article.

From Wikipedia,
“A neutrino is an electrically neutral, weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with a small but non-zero mass.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:13:00 +0000

Neutrinos are mass-less if I am not mistaking.

By: First Name

First Name — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:46:00 +0000

Am I the only one that’s more shocked that neutrinos have mass and they’re traveling this fast?

I mean, fundamentally the whole reason why light is the only thing that can travel at “light speed” is because it’s mass-less. To get something else to go that fast would require that it too be mass-less, and yet here we are talking about something that’s going at least as fast as light but has mass.