It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame.

Computers have feelings too. Just ask Mitt Romney.

Via Daily Kos

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But I'm glad someone can.

The Large Hadron Collider finally earned its name yesterday by whipping protons around
at record energies of 3.5 trillion electron volts each, and then smashing them into the ones
going around in the opposite direction.

New York Times article

A proton's mass is about 1 billion electron volts, so the collider accelerates these protons
to a relativistic ( Read more... )