The speed of light has been exceeded - maybe....

One headline says 'CERN Scientists 'break the speed of light' ' while another one says 'Einstein may be wrong - relatively speaking'.

The scientific world is all a-flutter because scientists in Switzerland fired streams of neutrinos at collectors 500 miles away in Italy, and those neutrinos arrived at the target collectors 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light, and 60 billionths of a second isn't a whole lot.

So today's Question Everything is: "Has the accepted speed of light always been incorrectly measured by a miniscule 60 nanoseconds, making old Uncle Albert's theory currently still correct, or is Captain Janeway foretelling the future as she confidently orders 'Ahead warp six!' and everything emitting light around them, except inside Voyager of course, blurs to elongated streaks just prior to vanishing into the gloom?"

To digress a moment, (may I?), when Voyager accelerates to warp speed, why aren't all the crew plastered all over the walls like fresh paint?  Haven't you ever wondered? That kind of acceleration logically ought to create such powerful G-forces that almost nothing could survive it, probably including Voyager itself.

And Old Uncle Albert's famous theory isn't only about who gets there first, - the electromagnetic radiation known as light, or the neutrinos normally produced during nuclear reactions such as inside the sun, hence the name solar neutrinos. His theory also says that as we approach the speed of light with any object of significant mass, the required energy to create the necessary acceleration or perhaps I should say 'speed' approaches the infinite - so we can't exceed the speed of light ourselves, because we can't harness enough energy to do it. Neutrinos might, because they have an extremely small mass - almost none, and no electrical charge to slow them down passing through normal atoms. So they don't play by the same rules that we'd have to, if we wanted to fly around the universe at speeds exceeding that of light. And don't let the good Captain Janeway tempt you to believe otherwise, Kiddies.