Einstein theory under threat as scientists ‘break’ light speed limit

AS Star Trek’s Mr Spock once remarked to Captain Kirk: “It’s life, but not as we know it.”

Einstein theory under threat as scientists ‘break’ light speed limit

He might have been responding to a cosmic claim by scientists in Switzerland who may have just debunked a fundamental law of physics and opened up the prospect of time travel.

According to researchers, Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light, could be wrong. They say that they have recorded sub-atomic particles travelling faster than light and, if true, the finding will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century.

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