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July 29, 2013

Experimental quest to test Einstein's speed limit
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2013
Albert Einstein's assertion that there's an ultimate speed limit - the speed of light - has withstood countless tests over the past 100 years, but that didn't stop University of California, Berkeley, postdoc Michael Hohensee and graduate student Nathan Leefer from checking whether some particles break this law. The team's first attempt to test this fundamental tenet of the special theory of relativity demonstrated once again that Einstein was right, but Leefer and Hohensee are improving the experi ... read more

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