Result backs up much-hyped, and much criticized, earlier experiment
(NEWSER) - The international physics team OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion Tracking Apparatus) has managed to recreate the result that shocked the physics world , again detecting a batch of subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light, the Washington Post reports. The "positive outcome of the test makes us more confident in the result," one OPERA physicist said in a statement, though he added that "a final word can only be said by analogous measurements performed elsewhere in the world." More»
