Eat Your Heart Out Einstein: Particles Faster than the Speed of Light Dicovered

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I suppose some of you might not know this but "time travel" was proven to be possible about 10 years ago via a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.

A german solid state physicist shot a beam of electrons at a sold block of material (through which the electrons could not pass physically). The information he was transmitting was Mozart's 12th(?) Symphony. What happened was the electrons basically went through little wormholes in order to get past the obstacle. What was the result? The electrons arrived at the receiver on the other side of the block BEFORE they left the transmitter.

So these neutrinos could have been doing the same thing. Only the space they leaped across via quantum tunneling was only a short distance of the total distance travelled, which gave the appearance of faster than light travel, but in fact it was a short distance of jumping from one point to another and at no time were the neutrinos actually travelling through ordinary space faster than light. If you are travelling through a wormhole then you appear to be travelling faster than light, because you're going from A to B instantaneously. But you are not actually traversing the intervening space, you are bypassing it. So you are not really travelling faster than light.

So I'm inclined to say that it's possibly not measurement error, but also that the neutrinos aren't really travelling faster than the speed of light in the classical sense. And indeed what is happening is already a known phenomenon. Certainly my nuclear physicist, rocket scientist brother was not terribly surprised by this news, and in fact it accords with one of his own theories about how elementary particles might behave.