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Quantization makes relativity compatible with superluminal phenomena
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Quantization makes relativity compatible with superluminal phenomena

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News shocked the physicist society that neutrinos may move faster than light. Most physicists affirm that this is impossible, according to the well-established relativity. Some try to find a new theory other than relativity to explain the phenomena. In the following we show it may be explained within relativity, if the quantum theory is also taken into account.

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Zhang, QR. Quantization makes relativity compatible with superluminal phenomena. Nat Prec (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.6887.1

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