Proving Special Relativity Wrong: Experiments & Particles

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is there any experiments that prove special relativity wrong
like discovering particles faster than light?
 

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moses99 said:
is there any experiments that prove special relativity wrong
like discovering particles faster than light?
Special relativity applies to spacetimes that are flat and have no gravitational constant.

In many experiments we ignore spacetime curvature (or the gravitational constant) because the factor is insignificant. But in experiments where this factor is significant special relativity no longer applies.
 

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