[Photon]

It's amazing to me how little discussion there is about the actual article and the information contained.

Anyway, the CERN OPERA team wasn't saying they'd discovered FTL particles. They were actually reporting that they were having anomalous results. Neutrinos were hitting the target about 60ns faster than photons, which should actually be impossible. They reran the test 10,000~ times with a margin of error around 10ns. Mostly their report was to get other scientists to help them figure out what's going wrong. The OPERA team definitely does not trust these results at all.

The only "good" theory on neutrinos becoming FTL particles would rely on the Standard Model Extension, in which the oscillation that neutrinos undergo(this is how they start as electron neutrinos in the sun and end up as muon neutrinos by the time they reach Earth) would potentially allow them to violate Lorentz Symmetry, permitting FTL speeds. However, this is a theory that is purely speculative. Dozens of theories along these lines get thrown out because they're just absurd, not because physicists refuse to think out of the box.