So What's Going on With Neutrinos These Days?

Remember those crazy neutrinos in Gran Sasso labs? Well the shocking results just got a little more convincing when new results were published  as the guys from the OPERA collaboration released new updated results.

So the results were updated as scientists in the Gran Sasso laboratories repeated their tests in a slightly different way. This time they fired very short and small pulses of neutrinos, which basically made their job at detecting the speed of the particles much easier. What they observed was that neutrinos still travelled faster than the speed of light in vacuum by about 0.00000006 seconds. So the shocking results survived the first test successfully. But don't start burning the books of relativity quite yet, as such profound results must be tested by at least one independent experiment to confirm. Also, even if neutrinos indeed travel faster than light, it's not the end of the world as there are some interesting theories, which suggest why neutrinos might travel faster than light (including time travel and other dimensions). Also check out this video. Cheers

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So What's Going on at LHC Lately?

So how is the great hunt for the Higg's particle going on in the biggest particle smasher in the world?

Unfortunately, Higgs chasers haven't found the great particle yet, however the collected data indicates a tighter range of possible masses of the hypothetical particle. To fit into standard model of particles Higg's boson has to be lighter than 145 billion electron volts.

Despite this, Higg's particle is still playing hard to get. There were signs of Higgs back in July, when scientists found some particles, which indicated that there might exist a lighter Higgs particle which is really hard to find at low energies.

The good news is that LHC physicist still expect they will either find the Higgs particle or rule out the existence of the famous particle in 2 years. Let's hope this is exactly what's going to happen, after all, it's about time for the good old Peter Higgs to get his Nobel Prize.

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