Faster than the speed of light?

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Um... wow.

I don't pretend to know much about physics, let alone about neutrinos, but it's possible, if these findings are correct, that the Einsteinian universe will have to be thoroughly rethought:

The physics world is abuzz with news that a group of European physicists plans to announce Friday that it has clocked a burst of subatomic particles known as neutrinos breaking the cosmic speed limit — the speed of light — that was set by Albert Einstein in 1905.

If true, it is a result that would change the world. But that "if" is enormous. 

It's times like this when I wish I understood this better, and perhaps had taken a more scientific (and not political scientific) academic / career path.