Faster Than Light Neutrinos: A Historical Overview
OPERA Experiment (2011)
In September 2011, the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) collaboration reported that neutrinos produced at CERN in Switzerland arrived at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy approximately 60 nanoseconds faster than light would travel over the same distance. This finding contradicted Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which posits that nothing can exceed the speed of light. The announcement garnered widespread media attention and led to a flurry of scientific activity, with over 180 papers published in response to the results by the end of 2011, exploring both potential explanations and errors in the OPERA measurements.
The team that previously suggested neutrinos might exceed the speed of light has conducted an enhanced version of their experiment and reaffirmed their initial findings. This new research has been submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics and posted on the Arxiv repository, though it has yet to undergo peer review. The experiments were conducted by the OPERA collaboration, which stands for Oscillation Project with Emulsion (T)racking Apparatus. The experiment involves sending neutrino bunches generated at CERN—produced through decays within a proton beam—through 730 kilometers (454 miles) of rock to a large detector at the INFN-Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. In their initial series of experiments, which included 15,000 measurements over three years, researchers found that neutrinos arrived 60 billionths of a second faster than light would have over the same distance. The notion that nothing can surpass the speed of light in a vacuum is a cornerstone of physics, originally posited by James Clerk Maxwell and later integrated into Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
Investigation and Error Discovery
Despite initial excitement, skepticism grew among physicists. In early 2012, further investigations revealed that a loose fiber optic cable had introduced timing errors in the OPERA setup. By March 2012, researchers confirmed that neutrinos from other experiments, including those conducted by ICARUS and MINOS, traveled at speeds consistent with light, effectively debunking OPERA’s findings. The OPERA team officially retracted their claims later that year after acknowledging these equipment failures.
A Lot Riding on This
Researchers at CERN in Switzerland and the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy diligently investigated potential errors in their experiments over three years, conducting thousands of tests, as they struggle to comprehend their astonishing findings. The publication of their results serves as a plea for scrutiny to identify any flaws in their methodology and preserve the integrity of physics as it is currently understood.
Subsequent Experiments
Following OPERA’s announcement, several other experiments were conducted to verify or refute the claim of faster-than-light neutrinos:
- ICARUS: Conducted experiments shortly after OPERA and found neutrinos traveling at light speed.
- MINOS: This experiment also measured neutrino speeds over a similar distance and confirmed they adhered to the speed limit set by light.
- BOREXINO and LVD: Both experiments located at Gran Sasso corroborated that neutrinos do not exceed light speed.
Conclusion
The saga of faster-than-light neutrinos illustrates the rigorous nature of scientific inquiry. Initial groundbreaking claims were scrutinized and ultimately disproven through collaborative efforts across multiple experiments. The scientific community reaffirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, emphasizing that while unexpected results can capture public interest, they must withstand thorough investigation and validation to be accepted as part of scientific understanding. As noted by CERN’s research director Sergio Bertolucci, this episode exemplified how science progresses through scrutiny and collaboration among competing research teams.
Are there faster than light neutrinos? In a word, no.
Read More
[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/once-again-physicists-debunk-faster-light-neutrinos
[2] https://neutrino-history.in2p3.fr/neutrinos-faster-than-light/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_OPERA_faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly
[4] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-science-fails-opera-neutrinos/
[5] https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/10/14/190707/faster-than-light-neutrino-puzzle-claimed-solved-by-special-relativity/
[6] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10249
[7] https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/opera-collaboration-presents-its-final-results-neutrino-oscillations-all
[8] https://www.metafilter.com/109596/Hyperlight-Nutrinos-Take-2
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPERA_experiment
[10] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17139635
[11] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00991-y
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPERA_neutrino_anomaly
[13] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.211801
[14] https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-210732
[15] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15034414
10 comments
That things can travel faster than the speed of light arent new at all, its done every day by “starpeople”/aliens.
I said it before that its possible to travel faster than the speed of light but no one believed me, I was told by all that nothing can travel faster than speed of light and I said over and over again for the last 12 years its possible and I also explained how it is possible, yet no one believed me.
To little trust in this world and its energy draining 🙁
I am a Starseed/Star-child, I lived my past life among the other stars out there, I and I remember how its possible to travel faster than the speed of light and in my past life I did travel faster than speed of light many times a month, it was normal and it was something that someone did every day, and it was as I said Normal.
I don’t care anymore if people don’t believe me or not but if you absolutely want proof that I said its possible to travel faster than speed of light before this science was published go to my youtube channel and look the comments I made on the 4 series and this are series one (1) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7YRCXFHVE&lc=hkCvVn1kA6j62bUPH1-urts9OBj4ZmjHmK772JfK3cc&feature=inbox
And there are otter videos on my channel (www.youtube.com/rdavm) where I go deeply technical explaining how its possible to travel faster than the speed of light.
I probably have google email log (linked to any comment ever made on youtube) back to the time when youtube was newly started, where I go deeply into the science on how to travel faster than the speed of light + written about this on numerous forums before even youtube was born.
And I have stated that before here maybe 1 year ago or more but then I was attacked and people called me stupid or nuts or something. Well who is leafing now?
I don’t beg anyone to take me serious but its about time someone do because I know this first hand as I lived it in my past life as ATO where at the time I lived on an other planet 464 Light years from Earth/Gaia
For the past above 15 years I told the world that Albert Einstein is a Joke when it comes to this area and I got a lot of hate because of that and people called me nuts and crazy and a lot of hate my way, well I was right and Albert Einstein was wrong but that is not the point, I don’t care about who is right and who is wrong, what I care about is the truth and I know the truth and its about time that the world wake up.
You must all try to have an more wider and more open mind than you all currently have and pls stop demand proof for all anyone tells you.
Science says its not science before u have proof, well I say its not impossible before its is proven so, and I told people that Listen I know its possible to travel faster than the speed of light and until its proven otherwise then it is possible and then people just said that I am stupid show me the proof and then I said I don’t need to bring you and proof nor do I intend to bring any because science here will soon discover that it is possible so if u want your proof you need wait maybe some years more.
I was in hard fight with a university employee and he said I am nuts and its not possible because all math ever made shows the university that its not possible, well then your math sucks and therefore people should stop take the universities so dam serious because they don’t know jack[crap] and are always wrong sooner or later.
U know all it started with that the earth was flat and then much later when u told someone that its possible to travel to the moon you was laughter out of the room.
My point with all this are, when are people going to stop be so narrow minded, open up your minds to that everything are possible because everything are possible, also free energy with I have R&D for the past 15 years and no one believed 15 years ago that free energy was possible, now people aren’t making jokes any more to that subject as well, with is good.
Did anyone here said that the truth have 3 steps 🙂 ?
Have a great day…
Robert! You’re back! 🙂
Yeah I am!! Take a look here http://www.planetseeder.com cool info!
What about this concern about inaccuracy of the GPS measurements:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394747,00.asp
Has this objection been answered?
We all know that instruments have a fault tolerance this also goes for Carbon 14 dating with is showing a zero to little when measuring very old things like how old the earth is, moon is and so on.
I said before it was discovered that carbon 14 dating are incorrect but not even a single university wanted to agree with me so there u go I also have debunked accuracy in instruments and was proven right 4 years later, not that it matters but I am usually right. However its a different matter knowing how fast decay rate is when we haven’t observed example a stone for more than 100 years.
In this test equipment its fairly easy done to calculate in tolerances since all speeds of the rest of the equipment in 100% of the time use energies that are not faster than the speed of light.
However WHEN THE F*** are people going to accept its possible and that all star-seed people are telling you all the truth…. Don’t blame me for not trying!
Its funny you are using stone-age (Albert Einstein) man as a FAQ for everything?
Listen, forget about past time stone-age man, forget about what u been told for years, forget about what the schools have said to you all, forget about math that says its not possible, if you all want to move on and evolve its about time that u all forget about a stupid stone-age man who had noting but theory to show for.
U know if Albert was the new Jesus no one would ever try to think new, nor discover anting new and its pretty close to that because even if u see it for your self u are just going to think not possible because Albert said so, muahahahaha… I guess u wont believe if u saw a real alien to, you will just say it is a mask or u will be unsure it was a dream or not 🙂
Snap out of it, will you?
LOL!
Robert, I think I’ve mentioned this to you before — carbon 14 is not used to gauge the age of the Earth or the Moon, so… maybe you should give up faulting it for not doing something it’s not supposed to do. I mean, I think any university would agree with you that carbon 14 dating will not reveal the age of the Earth.
A measurement inaccuracy (x2!) doesn’t prove that Cern’s right, only that they didn’t try hard enough to find the mistake in their earlier experiment, haha. That guy shouldn’t be eating his boxer shorts! –what a waste..
If he realy was serious about it he will have to do so because it is possible, has allways been possible to travel faster than speed of light and allways will be.
I said it for soon 26 years how it is possible and I also explained it in deep technical details on how it is possible to travel faster than speed of light inside a craft/with a craft.
No boddy listen, not you not anybody.
Maybe some day before I die old, people arent hahahaha behind my ears.
Sam you speak BS, you are just attacking me because thats the only thing u have left to argue with me about. I think maybe I have told u before that it is possible to travel faster than speed of light and now as I was proven right (not that I was surprised and it will be proven with same result over and over again) and if I am not mistaken about the person or remember incorrect you or someone here argued (I have argued for soon 3 decades, its hard to keep track who I argued with about faster than speed of light) with me that it is not possible to travel faster than speed of light while I said I know this as a fact and said I know how it is possible and can explain how it is done technically speaking but all who read my comments had to argue telling me that I am wrong and that noting can travel faster than speed of light, and I said it on youtube for years that Albert Einstein are wrong and dont really understand much and I said to many that they should not use a stone age man as a basic for everything when he is just telling BS, but no one want to listen, earth man is arrogant and wont be told anything and in some cases earth man are so arrogant that they dont even believe it if they see it with own eyes (alien and more).
That I had right about can travel faster than the speed of light for almost 3 decades does not mean I am the king of wisdom, however I really know what I am talking about when it comes to travel faster than speed of light, I lived it I experienced it and I even built space crafts in my past life that can travel faster than speed of light and that was my daily job. I worked in a hangar 700 meters wide, 400 meters tall with hangar door 300 meter tall and 500 meter wide, inside there we built large modules that we shipped up in space where we assembled the modules in orbit around the planet. My memory are so clear that I can tell you many years of memory. Atom copying machines for atom copy food and much much more advanced technologies was normal and day to day use and every home had a atom copying machine for get the food u need for free. Free energy generators are also common and used widely, every home have one. And because of this there aren’t a money system from where I lived my past life as Ato.
On the discovery channels “Discovery Science” some 6-8 years ago a moon rock was measured with carbon 14 dating, that much I remember. If discovery do misinformation is out of my help. however bottom line is that I said I did know that carbon 14 aren’t correct on very old matter, this 4 years before science announced the same as I had said for some time and that I can prove, but this aren’t about right or wrong, this are about respect with again lead to that I demand that I am being taken seriously and that people start listen to important information I have as a task, a task given to me by my alien brothers and sisters, a task I have to fulfill due to karma. Task include to speak/teach about free energy, (my professional area, among otter areas) atom copying technology, teleportation technologies, faster than speed of light technologies and propulsion systems and some more areas that I cant talk about or mention name about before the USA revolution are over.
One ting that earth man must know: Aliens dont know or have wisdom about all earth technologies and earth man understand a lot more about his own technology than outside man do, so there are in fact a lot of earth tech that u wont be able to make someone alien understand without a lesion.
And the last ting u all need to know are that no alien man or woman are any better than earth man, I am not any better than anyone and my feelings are the same as my star sisters and brothers: We feel most of the time that people are better than us but we, at-least I am so bad that I attack people if they are wrong but only in some areas, the important ones…
For more information about tings u cant dream of visit http://www.planetseeder.com and u will find me there to…
Freedom of speak are not going to care about faulting.
Whatever u did fight with me or not about faster than speed of light in the past, you sure are careful now to argue about it but clearly you did faulting for most of your life to realize on your own that it is possible to travel faster than speed of light, clearly you arent the right to say I am faulty
Look, Robert, it’s easy. Just look it up. Carbon 14 is for measuring the age of organic materials and only works for about 60,000 bp. Neither are in any way useful for measuring the age of the Earth or the Moon. I actually did learn that in university. If somebody was using carbon 14 to date moon rocks a few years ago, that’s their mistake. It’s for dating organic materials only, and would absolutely yield insane results in a place with no atmosphere (or organic material, for that matter).
There are about nine or ten methods used for radiometric dating, and carbon dating is just one of them. I am only trying to point out to you that, if you are trying to discredit some form of radiometric dating, then carbon 14 is not the one to discredit. It’s like saying a saw is a bad tool because it doesn’t drive nails well. In fact, I’ll make it easy for you: what one uses to determine the age of the oldest rocks is rubidium-strontium radiometric dating. That’s not BS, Robert. That is how it’s done.
Concerning the rest of your rant: I am not a physicist and do not generally talk about the speed of light, and I certainly don’t know enough about physics to ever have been in a debate about them. I read a book by Paul Davies called “About Time,” and he has me convinced that the speed of light is not an impossibility, though I must stress again that physics is not really my field.