{"id":880,"date":"2011-10-05T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galsys.co.uk\/news\/?p=880"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:42:11","slug":"have-scientists-found-faster-than-light-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/have-scientists-found-faster-than-light-particles\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Scientists Found Faster than Light Particles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physics world got itself into a bit of a tizz this month as scientists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, found an anomaly on one of their experiments, which seemed to show that some particles were travelling faster than light.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 280px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"contentURL\" class=\" \" title=\"Time server#s can provide atomic clock accuracy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/images\/ntp-servers\/nts-6001-gps-ntp-server-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"148\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">Time server&#39;s can provide atomic clock accuracy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Faster than light travel for any particle is prohibited of course, according to Einstein\u2019s Special Theory of Relativity, but the OPERA team at CERN, who fired neutrinos around a particle accelerator, travelling for 730 km, found that the neutrinos travelled the distance 20 parts per million faster than photons (light particles) meaning they broke Einstein\u2019s speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>While this experiment could prove to be one of the most important discoveries in physics, physicists are remaining sceptical, suggesting that a cause could be an error generated in the difficulties and complexities of measuring such high speeds and distances.<\/p>\n<p>The team at CERN used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/categories\/gps-time-server.html\">GPS time servers<\/a>, portable atomic clocks and GPS positioning systems to make their calculations, which all provided accuracy in distance to within 20cm and an accuracy of time to within 10 nanoseconds. However, the facility is underground and the GPS signals and other data streams had to be cabled down to the experiment, a latency the team are confident they took into account during their calculations.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists from other organisations are now attempting to repeat the experiments to see if they get the same results. Whatever the outcome, this type of groundbreaking research is only possible thanks to the accuracy of atomic clocks that are able to measure time to millionths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>To synchronise a computer network to an atomic clock you don\u2019t need to have access to a physics laboratory like CERN as simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntp-time-server.com\">NTP time servers<\/a> like Galleons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/ntp-servers\/nts-6001-gps-ntp-server.html\">NTS 6001<\/a> will receive an accurate source of atomic clock time and keep all hardware on a network to within a few milliseconds of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physics world got itself into a bit of a tizz this month as scientists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, found an anomaly on one of their experiments, which seemed to show that some particles were travelling faster than light. Faster than light travel for any particle is prohibited of course, according&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/have-scientists-found-faster-than-light-particles\/\">Continue reading <i class=\"fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,21,10,75],"tags":[16,29,206],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atomic-clocks","category-gps","category-gps-time-server","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel","tag-atomic-clock","tag-ntp-servers","tag-time-synchronisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Have Scientists Found Faster than Light Particles? - Galleon Systems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how atomic clocks and time servers can be used in particle physics in experiments with light particles\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/have-scientists-found-faster-than-light-particles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have Scientists Found Faster than Light Particles? 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