Subatomic particles caught speeding?

CERN scientists think they have clocked neutrinos going faster than the speed of light? Is this an error or will 100 years of Physics be upended?

(BBC)- Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.

A report will soon be online to draw closer scrutiny to a result that, if true, would upend a century of physics.

In the meantime, the group says it is being very cautious about its claims.

"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," said report author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration.

"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't," he told BBC News.

"When you don't find anything, then you say 'Well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinize this.'" Keep on reading...