Unless you've been living under a rock this week, odds are you've heard about that experiment at CERN—you know, the one where researchers detected particles traveling faster than the speed of light. The media did its thing, sensationalizing the discovery to the extreme and leading some folks to suspect some sort of easy mistake, like a rounding error, or even a hoax, à la the Fleischmann-Pons experiment.
The facts couldn't be farther from that. Here, we seem to have a sizable team of very perplexed researchers, faced with apparently impossible results ...
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