Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos   Recent experiments have led to the production of neutrinos with transit times
indicating the appearance of traveling faster than the speed of light. In this
paper, we present a conceptual framework to understand how faster-than-light
events involving neutrinos (as indicated by time-of-flight) might occur. We
propose that observations of this kind do not violate the special theory of
relativity; instead, they only help to provide evidence in support of the
general theory of relativity at quantum scales. Given the relativistic effects
of the neutrino on its local spacetime environment, the measured time-of-flight
at the macroscopic level is attributable to a decrease in the effective path
length traversed by the neutrino. Specifically, along preferred directions, we
show that the Kerr metric allows for the compression of spacetime; hence, the
decreased path length hypothesis is plausible. Furthermore, when the motion of
the neutrino is along the preferred direction for spacetime compression, the
Kerr metric also predicts strong frame dragging effects near the Planck length.
In the region where strong frame dragging occurs, we propose that the
microscopic explanation for the path length compression is due to the formation
of 'micro-wormholes' near the Planck length.

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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat