Something faster than the speed of light discovered

[felneymike]

The barman says "we don't serve faster-than-light particles in here". A neutreno walks into a bar.

[stevezodiac]

Here comes the science. This was in today's Metro and puts things into words of one syllable - so now we all understand it.

[alanultron5]

My mate Dave used to run to work at faster than light speed! Well. . . It certainly seemed like it!

[stevezodiac]

Sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Did you know the sound you hear when someone cracks a whip is not the whip itself but the sound of it breaking the sound barrier? Fact.

[AndyB]

60 nanoseconds is so short (60 billionths of a second) that it sounds like the margin of error in the speed of light. Have they tied the speed of light down to a precise number of nanometres per nanosecond like the many decimal places of pi?

[stevezodiac]

Hold on a minute, I'll get my abacus out.