Cosmology, the very way we think of space, would be forever altered. The distance to the stars and galaxies and the age of the universe (13.7 billion years) would be thrown in doubt. Even the expanding universe theory, the Big Bang theory, and black holes would have to be re-examined.
Physicists fired a beam of neutrinos (exotic, ghost-like particles that can penetrate even the densest of materials) from Switzerland to Italy, over a distance of 454 miles. Much to their amazement, after analyzing 15,000 neutrinos, they found that they traveled faster than the speed of light—one 60-billionth of a second faster, to be precise. In a billionth of a second, a beam of light travels about one foot. So a difference of 60 feet was quite astonishing.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576588662498620624.html
(Has a Speeding Neutrino Really Overturned Einstein?) The Wall Street Journal
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/27/scitech/main20112364.shtml
(Should Einstein be worried?) CBS News
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
(Documentation of the Experiment)
