Dr. Francesc Ferrer, Associate Professor of Physics, presented “The Eclipse That Made Einstein World-Famous” as part of the Saturday Science Lecture series leading up to the April 8 eclipse on Saturday, Feb. 24. 

A few weeks ago on campus, it was common to hear that “CERN broke physics.” Over many thousands of attempts and three years of study, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) had routinely noticed that neutrinos fired from CERN had arrived at the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) detector in northern Italy several nanoseconds faster than the speed of light.