A few weeks ago scientists discovered that a particle named neutrino was faster than light, hence, basically, revolutionizing modern physics (i.e., RIP Einsetin’s Theory of Relativity). Italy had been the receiving end of that experiment — literally. Scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) shot neutrinos from Switzerland to Gran Sasso Laboratory (some 732 kilometers) and claimed it was faster than light. Now, the same team thinks they may have made some mistakes.
The Gran Sasso Laboratory is the world’s largest underground lab and is located within the mountain Gran Sasso d’Italia, a key feature of the beautiful Parco Nazionale (National Park) of the same name. You may want to visit San Grasso while on vacanza (vacation) in Italy, just be careful not to slow down science while hiking there.
At its surface Gran Sasso is a mountain and national park, below it lies the Gran Sasso Laboratory.
