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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Study rejects "faster than light" particle finding


By Robert Evans

GENEVA | Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:35pm EST

(Reuters) - An international team of scientists in Italy studying the same neutrino particles colleagues say appear to have travelled faster than light rejected the startling finding this weekend, saying their tests had shown it must be wrong.

The September announcement of the finding, backed up last week after new studies, caused a furor in the scientific world as it seemed to suggest Albert Einstein's ideas on relativity, and much of modern physics, were based on a mistaken premise.
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