Einstein's theory of relativity maintains that nothing in the universe can exceed the speed of light. It has dominated the way physicists view the world for half a century, and today it looks like the whole idea could go out the window.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland report they believe they've caught subatomic particles exceeding the speed of light.
Not a lot faster, just a fraction of a second or so, but it's potentially big news. The group is cautious about its claims and is conducting a report on the results that could rock a century of science, all told, to its core.
"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," CERN spokesman Antonio Ereditato told the BBC.
"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't."
Much of modern physics in bound to the fact that nothing can exceed the speed of light, meaning if the finding is correct, much of what we "know" about the universe could simply be incorrect.
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