Faster Than The Speed Of Light

I'm a bit of a science buff... I love Quirks and Quarks on CBC radio, and I love to read the science magazines.... you know popular science etc...

This morning I woke up to a great headline on the CBC news.

Particles faster than light measured

A pillar of physics — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around Albert Einstein's theories.
Scientists at the world's largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light. That's something that according to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity — the famous E = mc^2 equation — just doesn't happen.
(you can find this on the CBC News Website.)

Then the following conversation ensued.

Me: Hey dear, they've proved that Einstein's theory of relativity is false.

Teapot: I've been saying for years that the speed of light is only a finite number and that it couldn't really be true.

Me: I always knew you were smarter than Einstein..... dear why are you feeding the cat again?

Teapot: Oh yeah... ooops!

Me: I always knew you were stund! No intuition at all... hmmmm! Book smart and street stund.... that's you.