Under Einsteinian physics, nothing can exceed the speed of light, and so far, nothing has challenged that conclusion.
At particle accelerators over the decades, subatomic particles are pushed to ever-higher speeds, but it takes ever more energy to attain each new fractional step toward the speed of light.
Instead of going faster when driven with higher-energy accelerators, the particles get heavier.
That phenomenon is described by Einstein's famous equation linking energy (E), mass (m), and the square of the speed of light (c): E=mc2.
(http://94.100.118.248/1412650001-1412700000/1412654401-1412654500/1412654420_5_veFf.jpeg)But over the last three years, the OPERA experiment has gathered high-precision data on exactly how long it took for the neutrinos to make a journey that should last about 2.4 thousandths of a second.
The neutrinos, though, arrived about 61 billionths of a second sooner than would light traveling in a vacuum, where its speed is at a maximum.
That's about 2 thousandths of a percent faster than the speed of light--not much, but more than enough to throw a major wrench into the workings of physics if the result is validated, Neutrinos still amazes.
From: News.cnet (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20110594-264/physics-shocker-neutrinos-clocked-faster-than-light/#ixzz1YmXIOfEp)
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