Originally posted by EvilRip
Misleading thread, this has not been confirmed. They still need to run shitloads of experiments to make sure it was not human/computer error.
When somebody release something after a internal peer review it been confirmed by that group. It not confirmed overall by science because it needs to be repeated. That why CERN has released the results and asked for others to copy it.
Based on what has been said from CERN they are certain it no error at their end.
If the speed is wrong it only for one group of matter. So a small rewrite is needed but it still big news.
Also brings up some strange possible outcomes like time travel into the past
Apparently all the readings are correct, they were being analysed over the last six months or so. I'm not really sure what to make of the whole thing, it boggles the mind to try and think of it logically. For example, they would have received the neutrinos before they were even sent, how is that possible?
Anyways I know we are all wondering if it will lead to time travel and I personally don't think it will because sub atomic particles are a long way away from a fully fledged time machine and if you performed time travel then you would abuse the shit out of it, I know I would.
Neutrinos take a short cut into a another dimension is one theory. Going faster in that dimension then slow back down once they hit are dimension.