Faulty wire error blamed for 'faster-than-light' particles
- Published: 23/02/2012 at 07:33 AM
- Online news: World
A European experiment that in September showed particles moving faster than the speed of light has been exposed as a mistake due to a faulty wire connection, the US journal Science said Wednesday.
Scientists look at a part of the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Racking Apparatus detector (OPERA) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) located under the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy in 2011. A European experiment that in September showed particles moving faster than the speed of light has been exposed as a mistake due to a faulty wire connection, the US journal Science said Wednesday.
"A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame," said the report on the magazine's website section Science Insider, citing "sources familiar with the experiment."
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