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2nd Test Finds Faster-Than-Light Particles

Result backs up much-hyped, and much criticized, earlier experiment

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 18, 2011 9:02 AM CST

(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...   Read full story »

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particle accelerator • physics • speed of light • CERN • particle physics • time travel • Theory of Relativity • OPERA

 
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