it's science Mar. 16, 2012

Time Travel Definitely Not Happening Anymore

By Dan Amira

Photo: Twentieth Century Fox

Another experiment has confirmed that neutrinos do not travel faster than the speed of light, although they do travel at the speed of light, which isn’t too shabby.

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