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CERN scientists 'break the speed of light'

7 points| prateekj | 10 years ago |telegraph.co.uk | reply

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[+] gus_massa|10 years ago|reply
The article is from 2011, but it's somehow trending now and has been resubmitted a few times.

The origin of the mistake was found a few months later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

> Later the team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/955/