The Speed of Light | HD video | 25 min | 2015
In an experiment at LNGS-Laboratory in Gran Sasso in Italy, that cooperates with particle accelerator CERN in Switzerland, proofs have been found that subatomic particles move faster than light speed.
In this CNGS (Cern
Neutrinos to Gran Sasso) experiment Neutrinos - tiny particles with no charge
and almost no mass - were fired from CERN to a huge underground detector in
Gran Sasso. These particles are able to travel the 720 km distance through the
earth without being stopped or slowed down.
In his Special Theory of Relativity Albert
Einstein stated that the speed of light is the ultimate speed, nothing can go
faster. If these neutrinos go faster than light it would have dramatic
consequences. An amazing world of strange new physics will open up in front of
us. The order of cause and effect could reverse. A particle might arrive before
it has departed.
Visual artist and
filmmaker Mels van Zutphen followed
the track of the neutrino by car. From Geneva to Gran Sasso in 12 days. A beam
of light takes 0,0024 seconds.
