Sunday, October 2, 2011

SPEED OF NEUTRINO

I have been watching YOUTUBE videos and reading e-BOOKS on latest Physics news. Of course the latest universe-shaking news was the possibility that NEUTRINOS (all flavors?) outrun PHOTONS. There were several conjectures as to the 3-year CERN experiment consistently showed that neutrinos outrun photons but the prospect of "disproving" special and general theory of relativity by this experiment is so daunting (Imagine... proving Einstein wrong in an experiment... Einstein also encountered the same dilemma when he proved Newton incorrect in a theory). Why is it daunting? Relativity has been the hallmark of understanding the universe and now all theoretical physicist are discussing every exotic idea to explain it. Maybe we don;t need to change relativity, just change "the speed of light" and change it to the "speed of neutrino" ?