The challenging conclusion that CERN physicists reached a few months ago after a recent experiment that suggested that neutrinos travel faster than light (and therefore Einstein's theory of relativity was wrong) could be due to a failure on a fiber optic cable from a GPS receiver , which did not make contact with the main clock. By solving the problem, it seems that the 60 nanosecond difference compared to the speed of light recorded in the original experiment would disappear, sources from the OPERA experiment have informed Nature.
The neutrino experiment was the first to use a Global Positioning System (GPS) in the particle accelerator to synchronize the atomic clocks, so there could also be a miscalculation. However, there are already five groups of physicists from different parts of the world repeating the experiment to confirm or deny their conclusions, as it was learned last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
