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.

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