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CERN Press Release: OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso

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Mad Prophet Ludwig9/23/2011 11:54:07 am PDT

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LVQ: What are the implications (real world) if these findings are correct?

How wide will the ripple effect be?

Real world, it would mean that somewhere at the energies of the CERN neutrinos some symmetry got broken in a very elusive way. Your electric power would not work if relativity was wrong, so relativity itself is not going to be threatened.

With that symmetry breaking, there would be corrections to relativity at high energy, in much the same way that relativity corrects Newton at high speeds.

However, the mathematical constraints on how that could be are difficult to overstate.

So real world, if true, there will be a boom in theory that could lead to Lord knows what. But I doubt it will bear out.