Einstein proved that nothing can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum. Yet inside nuclear reactor pools, subatomic particles routinely outrun photons, igniting an eerie sapphire shockwave of light.
A subatomic muon's lifespan is only 2.2 microseconds. Even moving at 99.8% the speed of light, it should decay high above the clouds. The reason it reaches sea level proves that space and time bend.
Precise measurements of the Higgs boson and top quark suggest our universe does not sit at the true ground state of energy, but in a metastable false vacuum capable of catastrophic collapse.