在实验的过程中,研究人员发现这些粒子的用时比光要少了几十亿分之一秒。
In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.
9月23日,意大利opera的物理学家说,他们已经捕获到来自瑞士CERN粒子物理实验室的比光速还要快60纳秒的中微子。
On 23 September, physicists with the OPERA experiment in Italy said they had caught neutrinos arriving from the CERN particle physics lab in Switzerland 60 nanoseconds sooner than light.
这些粒子中的一部分是稳定的并且构成了普通物质,其它的只存在一秒钟的几分之一,然后衰变为稳定粒子。
Some of these particles are stable and form the normal matter, the others live for fractions of a second and then decay to the stable ones.
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