Opera experiment breaks the speed of light, and Einstein’s theory

In a very recent test conducted by scientists within the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, Albert Einstein’s 1905 theory of nothing being able to travel faster than the speed of light has been proven wrong, or at least it would appear to have been.

The recent test conducted by CERN scientists involved firing clusters of tiny, subatomic particles called neutrinos all the way to a detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. Now according to the scientists, these neutrinos got to this detector way too soon, by a science staggering amount of 60 nanoseconds, and with it breaking the speed of light. If this evidence holds up (it is currently undergoing observation and tests to disprove it) then it has serious complications for science as we know it today, and we would literally have to rewrite the majority of rules applied to physics currently. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: TechnologyBlogged

CERN De-Bugs Hadron Collider With Static Analysis

September 23, 2011 by Sophie Curtis

CERN has been rooting out defects in its Large Hadron Collider, as physicists discover faster-than-light particles

Particle physics lab CERN has announed it may have discovered faster-than-light neutrino particles today. The result could rewrite the laws of physics – but scientists must first work hard to eliminate all possible sources of error from the experiment.

While that effort goes on, CERN’s high-profile Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment continues, with the reassurance that 40,000 software errors have been eliminated from the source code of the software used to analyse its results.

CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is using static analysis software from testing company Coverity to eliminate software defects from ROOT – the C++ framework that is used to store, analyse and visualise data about the LHC. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: eWEEK