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Originally Posted by Salgueiros
..but since you are not a physicist or scientist of any kind, you CAN adopt the attitude that particles can travel faster than light without looking too silly, and without any consequence. However, previously, physicists did not only had to accept that but also all their theoretical architecture was based on that. And since that CAN change (let us wait for other groups to confirm the results) new and exciting things might come in the future.
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Who told you that? On the contrary, I am an active researcher in the earth sciences. Just to bragg a bit, I was just invited to hold a Lectio Magistralis. Why should you turn it on the personal side? Discrediting the interlocutor is not in your honor.
It is not enormously faster. Just a bit. A tiny bit in terms of everyday life.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am going to predict right now that this is going to be found to be caused by a currently-unidentified experimental error. The chance of it being a real physical effect are quite vanishingly small.
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That possibility is always there. I doubt it though, with so many signing the paper. Actually they are 173.
An educated guess ?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you look at it as a rotational transformation of 4-dimensional spacetime, then it's actually a necessary constraint. Not the precise number, but the fact that there is an "upper limit".
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It might also be that the upper limit will have to be nudged up a bit. For neutrinos at least.