Just an addendum to the Particle Physics Questions raised by Uncle Bart and Noel: the new official word is that No, neutrinos aren't passing through the Alps at faster than light speed. I think it may make my Ticom Geomatics friends a little squirmy to hear that it sprang for a loose cable in the GPS monitoring system the experimenters used for their timing. See this article for an update:http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/22/einstein-was-right-all-along-faster-than-light-neutrino-was-product-of-error/?xid=newsletter-weekly