If you think Darwin’s theory of evolution is as secure as Einstein’s theory of special relativity, well…maybe you’re right.
The Guardian has the story:
It is a concept that forms a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe and the concept of time — nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
But now it seems that researchers working in one of the world’s largest physics laboratories, under a mountain in central Italy, have recorded particles travelling at a speed that is supposedly forbidden by Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
Scientists at the Gran Sasso facility will unveil evidence on Friday that raises the troubling possibility of a way to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.They will announce the result at a special seminar at Cern — the European particle physics laboratory — timed to coincide with the publication of a research paper describing the experiment.