Space: the final frontier.<br/> As physicists continue to wrestle with the mysteries of the universe, there was one rule at least that seemed inviolable: Einstein's theory that nothing could beat the speed of light.<br/> Today scientists in Geneva however are unveiling a stunning piece of research that could disprove this law - and shake up our entire comprehension of time and space.<br/> They measured the time it took neutrinos - a type of sub atomic particle - to travel the 730km distance from Geneva to a sister lab in Italy.<br/> To their astonishment, they discovered out that the neutrinos seemed to have been recorded travelling 60 nanoseconds, or a billionth of a second, faster than light.<br/> Researcher and particle physicist Dario Autiero was part of the team.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (French) CNRS RESEARCHER AND PARTICLE PHYSICIST, DARIO AUTIERO SAYING:<br/> "It is the first time that we have experimental evidence of a particle travelling faster than light, which is completely unexpected in physics as we know it."<br/> Neutrinos are mysterious sub-atomic particles which can pass undetected through matter, including the human body.<br/> The most common particle in the universe, they originate from the sun, and radioactive disintegration.<br/> More than a century after Einstein presented his special theory of relativity, this discovery - if accurate - could revolutionise modern-day physics.<br/> Sunita Rappai, Reuters
