Saturday, 14 July 2012

Do Neutrinos travel faster than light?

E=MC^2

Albert Einstein's  famous equation of
Mass- Energy :  E = MC2.
The velocity of light, C interrelates, space and time. In 1905,  Albert Einstein postulated that the speed of light with respect to any inertial frame is independent of the motion of the light source and said ‘c’ had relevance outside of the context of light and electromagnetism.
Now a meter is defined as: the distance traveled by light in: 1299,792,458 of a second.
Do Neutrinos travel faster than light?
According to scientists the neutrinos raced from a particle accelerator at CERN outside Geneva, where they were created, to a cavern underneath Gran Sasso in Italy, a distance of about 450 miles, about 60 nanoseconds faster than it would take a light beam. That amounts to a speed greater than light by about 0.0025 percent (2.5 parts in a hundred thousand).

The speed of light is approximately 186,282 miles per second. 

Time for light to travel 450 miles= 450/186282 = 0.002415692337 second.
                                              = .002415692337 X 1000000000= 2415692.337 nano second (ns).
Time taken by Nutrinos to travel 450 miles= 2415632.337, that is 60 ns faster or earlier.

GOD PARTICLE

                                                     God Particle

The Large Hadron Collider is a proton-smashing collider built in a 27-km or 17 mile tunnel  - a long machine created by physicists, where trillions of protons are made to collide with one another at mind-boggling speed in the hope that from the debris of these collisions scientists may spot the elusive particle that would explain the formation of the stars and the planets.

This experiment is guided by the theory associated with the British physicist Peter Higgs who, with five other physicists, proposed in a paper in 1964 that space is permeated by a force field. This invisible field, a kind of “cosmic molasses,” coats other particles when they pass through it and gives them the mass that allows them to combine into bigger forms of matter. You can’t see the molasses, but it should be possible to establish its presence by the traces it leaves behind. The Higgs boson is its manifestation, but even this eludes observation.

Six thousand physicists who were involved in this amazing experiment hailed the discovery of the Higgs boson, or what looked like it, as a milestone in the quest to understand nature.