David M. Raley
May I suggest that what the Scientists at CERN have discovered in this matter is not that Neutrinos have an absolute speed that is faster than the absolute speed of light.
Rather they have observed Neutrinos traveling faster that Light has yet been observed to travel.
Neutrinos, we are given to believe, are hard to detect because they interact with other matter less frequently than do Electrons, Protons, Photons etc. Indeed, the interaction of Photons with other matter is so common that it commands our constant attention. Neutrinos see less to interact with going through solid rock than photons see in the best vacuums science has been able to achieve.
In these best vacuums that science has been able to achieve and even in the vast wild regions of space there is still something to slow light down. Something like a Particle here and there. Something like Gravity.
What has been discovered is that the speed of Light in the absence of any matter or any Gravity Field is just a bit faster than has been observed so far. If the Neutrino had been timed through a really good vacuum it would probably have been just a smidgen faster than through that mountain.