A few years ago there was a story about the Large Hadron Collider where a possible tachyon was supposedly observed. It was later shown it didn't occur yet the incident made me think. If a large experiment using extreme amounts of energy trying to duplicate some processes or events of the 'distant' past , would the intense amount of energy in this 'early' Universe experiment create a situation where the speed of light was different?? If a particle was observed emanating from this experiment and it seemed superluminal could this be due to a different speed of light measurement due to this phenomenon.
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1Are you talking about the OPERA neutrinos? That had absolutely nothing to do with the LHC (and as the answer explains, was shown to be a faulty measurement). – David Z Apr 11 '14 at 04:19
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2To be very clear, OPERA involved CERN, but the LHC is not CERN. LHC is at CERN, but it is only one of a great many things at CERN. OPERA's neutrino beam was produced by a different accelerator (the SPS). – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Apr 11 '14 at 04:30
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Unfortunately, this result was later found to be caused by faulty electronics, according to the CERN press release.
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