AFAIK neutrinos travel the same route as photons ect, a straight line.Super Nova wrote:Here is an idea.Chargeless and almost massless, yet undeniably there, fundamental particles known as neutrinos set the physics world agog last year when they showed signs of having broken nature's ultimate speed limit.
Scientists at an Italian research facility in Gran Sasso reported that neutrinos had travelled 730 kilometres from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the huge particle accelerator at CERN straddling the Swiss-French border, 60 nanoseconds faster than light speed.
The team tried sending more particles, but in tighter bunches, along the same route to establish whether the results could be reproduced. Although the jury is still out, this might be the year when the highly controversial find is either upheld or laughed out of town. Watch this hyperspace
What they messured wasn't the neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light but rather they find a shorter distance, a different route through space to beat light/EM there.
Nobel prize here please.
The fact neutrinos travel faster than other sub-atomic particles, to me, in no reason to suppose/theorise/imagine such particles could or would aid or facilitate faster than light speed travel for mass.
IMO the fact neutrinos are able to pass through solid matter, and fizzle out up to 10mls/16km down into the Earth suggest their most feasible application with our current tech would be subterranean mapping. Could alleviate need for some test drilling or sound bombing.
Kindly pass that prize over here thanks.
EDIT ADDITION - Scrap that. The fact neutrinos pass through solid matter means there would be no return signal to read.
Maybe neutrinos could be used to carry info like lasers do now, with the benefit of passing through solid matter like radio waves.