Well, here we go again. One of Science's most widely revered unproven tenets being challenged by a happenstance incident. Researchers at the CERN facility reported that they have recorded neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. The neutrinos were clocked at a blistering 6000 meters per second FASTER than the accepted speed of light in a vacuum, and the neutrinos were passing through solid earth. The researchers are being very cautious about their findings, and will send their results to the US and Japan to be reproduced and hopefully verified by independent testing.
Three possibilities spring to mind. Either the researchers were hired by the evil fossil fuel industry to discredit real scientists, and fundamentally cause the general population to doubt the infallibility of Science, or (B) they were just mistaken and their measurements contained errors despite months of painstaking preparations, or (III)Einstein was wrong.
I personally think it was highly irresponsible of the scientists to go shooting 16,000 neutrinos through the Earths crust at speeds that high. If, as Hendrick Lorentz' and subsequently Einstein's theory states, matter becomes infinitely large when accelerated to the speed of light, then 16,000 objects suddenly becoming infinitely large would have most likely caused some traffic jams in that little corner of Europe.
Of course, there are already those scrambling to explain the anomaly within the dogma of accepted physics. Perhaps the neutrinos slipped through a different dimension, taking a shortcut through time and space. Then a new can of worms is opened, opening the possibility of reversing that same inter-dimensional shortcut, and actually send particular information back in time.
So if the speed of light is not the galactic speed limit, what frontiers might be opened with this possible discovery, and what accepted truth might be shattered?