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There are particles like tachyon which moves faster than light theoretically,does this holds good enough for neutrinos?

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Do neutrino travels faster than light?

No.

There are particles like tachyon which moves faster than light theoritically,does this holds good enough for neutrinos?

No, there aren't. No, it doesn't hold even remotely.

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No, neutrinos do not travel faster than light. In 2011, an experiment called OPERA claimed to measure superluminal neutrino velocities, but it was later realized to have been an error.

At least two of the three types of neutrino have nonzero rest mass, based on measurements of neutrino oscillation. It's possible that the third neutrino is massless, though this seems unlikely. If it is massless, then it would travel at the vacuum speed of light - otherwise, like the other two, it would travel subluminally.

The question of neutrino masses and their origin is far from settled, and is an active area of research.

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