For those of you (like me) who had a WTF reaction and knew that that somewhere in your life you had a passing acquaintance with Lorentz symmetry, this is a pret

For those of you (like me) who had a WTF reaction and knew that that somewhere in your life you had a passing acquaintance with Lorentz symmetry, this is a pretty readable discussion of Lorentz violation: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19076 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19076. IANAP, but here goes. Lorentz symmetry states that the laws of physics are the same for all observers in non-accelerating frames of reference. It is an axiom of special relativity. Finding that it can be/has been broken brings on all kinds of new physics and ways to test them. If you understand this, feel free to jump in with a real explanation. :-)