Neutrinos appears to have travelled slightly faster than light. BBC reports suggest that that refuted
e = mc2
which connects energy to mass, yet the observations have no direct relevance to that, what they do challenge in the Lorentz Transformation.
A general revision of the theory of relativity might involve changes in many formulae accepted today, but it it too early to jump to the conclusion that e = mc2 is one of those.
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I notice that the neutrinos are produced in France and observed in Italy. A similar pair of facilities also exists in the USA. Perhaps the scientists involved in these studies might get better accuracy if they swap their observation facilities around.
Virtual particle pairs that spontaneously pop into existence do so with a tiny spatial separation; at least, that's a conclusion I draw from the explanation of black hole evaporation by Hawking radiation. I wonder if there's also a tiny time differential as well? If there was, and it also applied to breakdowns of "real" particles, that might account for a tiny apparent time difference.
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