The photon should never lose a race. But on Thursday, stories started  trickling in of a baffling result: neutrinos that move faster than  light. News of this potential violation of special relativity is  everywhere now. But despite  a flurry of media coverage, it’s still hard  to know what to make of the  result.
As far as particle physics results go, the finding itself is fairly easy to  convey. OPERA, a 1300-metric-ton detector that sits in Italy’s  underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory,  detected neutrinos that  seem to move faster than the speed of light.  The nearly massless particles made the 2.43-millisecond, 730-kilometer  trip from CERN,  where they were created, to OPERA about 60 nanoseconds   faster than a photon would.
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