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LETTER OF THE MONTH
Faster than light?
As ever, Marcus Chown writing for makes interesting reading, especially a paragraph midway through his feature 'Ghost Particles of the Milky Way' (October, p64), which states: “This results in a cascade of subatomic shrapnel, with some of the particles travelling through the ice faster than the speed of light.” Does this mean we're