No Warp-Speed Neutrinos, Why Should I Care?
“Drivers license and proof of insurance, please,” is the way it often begins. Specular glints of sunlight carom from mirrored sunglasses. Busted for speeding, think it can’t happen to you? It supposedly happened to muon neutrinos, proceeding from Switzerland to Italy. In my Italian travels, speed-demons seemed to be of little interest to authorities. But the cognoscenti recognized that never before had the implications of the exhibition of speed — superluminal speed — been so profound.
