Researchers working for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) were caught by surprise with a fantastic finding during one of their routine experiments in Switzerland.

CERN scientists disclosed that a neutrino launched from a particle accelerator close to Geneva to another laboratory 454 miles away in Italy traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. The margin of error was calculated to be only 10 nanoseconds making the difference numerically significant.

Nonetheless, these specialists still used up several months of checking and counter-checking results just to ensure that there were no errors in their experimentation.

Neutrinos are comparable to the more popular electron except for the fact that these are electrically neutral and are not at all influenced by electromagnetic elements that act on electrons.

Although some experts continue to doubt claims made by CERN, these neutrinos were actually seen breaking through the cosmic speed barrier of 186,282 miles per second.

Indeed this may be the latest addition to the Special Theory of Relativity created by one of the most popular and clever physicists of all times, Albert Einstein.

Contemporary physicists believe that if ever these results are proven correct, the world and everything in it still will not change but the findings may alter people's perception of how the whole world functions.

Reports from the Associated Press quoted James Gillies, spokesperson for the CERN as saying that the "readings have overwhelmed many researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming and actual discovery."

According to www.forbes.com, only two laboratories somewhere else in this world have attempted to duplicate these results. The first is Fermilab situated out of Chicago and the other is a Japanese scientific research unit that was affected by the recent catastrophe in Japan.

Fermilab officials are presently working on plans to validate the European research and revealed that their particle beam ready has been let loose although the systems they use is inferior than those of the Europeans and may not undergo modernization at this time.

The celebrated theory of Einstein which states that "energy equals mass times the speed of light squared" is the forerunner of everything that is about modern physics.

However, it may not take long until all these theories and findings will be changed.