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Old 24-09-2011, 09:13 PM
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Looks like high energy neutrinos (produced in CERN) are experiencing Lorentz-violating oscillations and can travel FTL.

From wiki article :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrin...nova_neutrinos

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. In 1985 it was proposed by Chodos et al. that neutrinos can have a tachyonic nature.[35][36] Today, the possibility of having standard particles moving at superluminal speeds is a natural consequence of unconventional dispersion relations that appear in the Standard-Model Extension,[37][38][39] a realistic description of the possible violation of Lorentz invariance in field theory. In this framework, neutrinos experience Lorentz-violating oscillations and can travel faster than light at high energies.

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