Problem is according to the article only 2 labs in the world can confirm or refute the initial findings. And one is down due to the earthquake in Japan. It will be another couple decades before scientists finish arguing over whether or not they were right

 

This is not the first experimental evidence of 'something' exceeding the speed of light. A couple(? few? several?) years ago I recall very distinctly reading of an experiment which, to distill what I recall, shot a beam through a substance, and measured 'something' at the output side of the substance which indicated the entrance of the beam at the opposite side. Trouble was, there was not a sufficient time delay to account for the beam passing through the substance. Ergo, 'something' traveled faster than the speed of light across the substance.

This experiment would simply provide support for that previous experimental evidence.

 

Part of the problem is the distance covered. The particle arrived 0.00000006 seconds sooner than expected over a distance of 732 km. To measure that over a small distance that most labs have at their disposal would be impossible because the time difference would be painfully small.

BBC Article

 

Kerri, that is way too deep, you need to get Steve back in charge of the keyboard, he would never challenge our (tiny) collective brains like that.

 

Sorry, missed that, it was getting late.

It is clearly twice as long as half of it.