See if one can intervene (or to annoy people), and correct some things (please tell me if this IS too annoying or geeky)
. (if someone have a higher ed than I in physics (Ph.D. student or so) please correct me if I'm wrong...)
First: FTL neutrinoes: This result is as far as I gathered only preliminary or test results to see if their toys were working and obviously they were. The problem is time. They wanted to measure the speed the neutrinos had and thus did the classical approach. They have a beam of neutrinos with a known distance. Time is measured by sending a signal saying: "and they leave NOW!" ...rather simple.
Problem: This signal did Not go the same path as the neutrinos, neutrinos went in a straight line from CERN to Italy, whereas the signal went up into space in a GPS satellite, to another satellite and down to Italy, so you can probably sumise the problem here. What they plan to do is to correct for this time difference, basically just add the time it takes for the signal to travel. And ofcourse there are other stuff that could happen to the signal in the atmosphere...
Second: Cold Fusion: A dream, it didn't work the first time, nor the second, third time... don't know how many times they actually tried but not many... this we know why and actually have known since Culomb put up his law of electrostatic forces. It is the exact same REASON (not energies) you won't have a fusion of atoms when you slam your hand in the coffe table (so we should probably be happy about that)...
Foton is correct in my language and Photon is english spelling, but who cares...
Third: Numbers: Imaginary numbers are used in wavefunctions in quantum mechanics to describe electronic states in atoms and molecules and to explain how and why molecules have a certain structure.... and other fancy wavefunctions maybe even in string theory but I wouldn't know that...
For those who actually cared I could try to give a better explanations if you want...