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Faster than light?
As ever, Marcus Chown writing for BBC Science Focus makes interesting reading, especially a paragraph midway through his feature ‘Ghost Particles of the Milky Way’ (October, p64), which states: “This results in a cascade of subatomic shrapnel, with some of the particles travelling through the ice faster than the speed of light.” Does this mean we’re seeing something that has broken the ‘light barrier’?