Faster-than-light particles? Probably not

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If neutrinos were faster than light, it would require rethinking the basics of physics, including the possibility of time travel.

Six months after physicists shocked the world by announcing they'd found particles seemingly traveling faster than light, the growing scientific consensus seems to be that the results were flawed.Researchers at the ICARUS project in Italy have recreated an independent version of the original Switzerland-based experiment, called OPERA, and found that their particles traveled at a respectable, sub-light speed.  more...