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FTL Neutrinos? Not so Fast…Maybe

Here we go, folks. Yet another update on the faster than light (FTL) neutrinos reported by CERN experiments (previous posts here, here, and here). As a brief recap, last September, Physicists had detected neutrinos travelling from the CERN laboratory in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory near L’Aquila that appeared to travel FTL. According to…

A New Space Race

Today, Obayashi Corp., a Japanese construction firm announced that it would complete a space elevator by as early as 2050. This could be one of those big announcements that people recall, just after John F. Kennedy’s famous announcement that the U.S. would travel to and from the moon in ten years. Obayashi stated that it…