Sibel Yildirim
2013
The pace of scienti fi c life continues to speed up considerably due to the fl ow of data being faster than ever. In my previous SpringerBrief’s preface, I mentioned the groundbreaking discovery that neutrinos have been shown to exist at speeds faster than that of light. However, only a few months after this, the discovery team debunked their data by announcing that a loose fi ber optic cable had introduced a delay in their timing system which explained the effect. Now a new subatomic particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs Boson has been discovered, despite the conservative approaches of many physicists.