"My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato told BBC News. But for now, he explained, "we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy".
Speed of light under scrutiny at CERN
So, in Cern the LHC - it's set up to smash atoms on the lookout for a bunch of things including the Higgs Boson right? But it seems it's thrown a theoretical cat amongst the pigeons.