They made the remarks in Beijing prior to a forum for Nobel laureates.
"I'm willing to bet money that it's not correct," said Professor George Smoot III, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and a professor at University of California, Berkeley, referring to an experiment result claiming that particles apparently travel faster than light.
The experiment reported an anomaly in the flight time of neutrinos, or electrically neutral subatomic particles, from the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland to a laboratory located 730 kilometers away in Italy.
Particles were clocked transmitting at a speed of 300,006 kilometers per second, about 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light.
Smoot said that the claims "did not make sense" and should be verified by other scientists first.
"There are many distortions in physics. You have to have a very high standard to see if something is truly correct," he said.
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