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Friday, February 24th, 2012

Scientists Did Not Break Speed of Light – it Was a Faulty Wire

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Source:     The Telegraph (U.K.)
Publication Date:     10:26PM GMT 22 Feb 2012
 Link: Scientists Did Not Break Speed of Light – it Was a Faulty Wire
Stephan:   Last September I ran the first report concerning this research, when the claim of faster than light was announced. This is the correction, and a shining example of science doing what it should do: constantly course correct to account for better data. Let me note also that this is why I keep saying 'if' the Rossi LENR technology proves itself.

It was Albert Einstein who proposed more than 100 years ago that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light.

Einstein’s theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.

But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claimed they had recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second.

Now it seems Einstein’s reputation has been restored after a source close to the experiment told the US journal Science Insider that ‘A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame.’

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Scientists at CERN claimed that neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than the 2.3 milliseconds taken by light.

The report in Science Insider said the ’60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable […]

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