Posted on 11/18/2011 5:58:38 AM PST by decimon
The team behind the finding in September that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and found the same result.
If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics.
Critics of the first report had said that the long bunches of neutrinos used could introduce an error into the test.
The new work, posted to the Arxiv repository, used much shorter bunches.
It has been submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics, but has not yet been reviewed by the scientific community.
The experiments have been carried out by the Opera collaboration - short for Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Operatic ping.
We don’t serve your kind in here!
A neutrino walks into a bar.
The article mentions my biggest suspicion, which is the precise measurent of time for the departure and arrival. Syncing those clocks to that level of accuracy would be a real bear.
And the bartender said, “Slow down. You move too fast. You’ve got to make the morning last.”
A proton walks into a bar and orders a bloody mary. The bartender says, “are you sure about that?” “I’m positive.”
Perhaps they used the same mathematicians they use in balancing euro-budgets in Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. - most likely Harvard educated, like our treasury dept “geniuses”.
so, the fat lady sings
Neutrinos interact with little in OUR UNIVERSE.
So, maybe they're really in ANOTHER UNIVERSE with a different speed of light.
There ~ problem solved ~
So, basically what this research is showing is that WARP speed travel is theoretically possible.
Hopefully we will meet the Vulcans before we find out there are Klingons around Uranus.
Have they taken conscientiousness, a variable, into the equation? Is this what they wanted to observe? Where there "disbelievers" attending during the experiment who wanted to observe an opposite result?
In other words, did they find Schroeder's cat ALIVE in the machine, because deep inside - they really wanted to?
Before we start discussing how wrong Einstein was, these scientists first have to define ‘travel’, as in ‘traveling faster than light’.
The neutrinos aren’t traveling in the sense that they occupy space between point A to point B, which is what Einstein meant.
The neutrinos are jumping interdemensionally from A to B. Essentially, the neutrino is in two places at the same time. This is not traveling in the Einstein sense of travel. IMO
Big deal. I’m so fast, I can turn off the light switch, and get under the covers before the lights go out.
I don’t know about that.. these neutrinos are only a fraction faster than the standard light speed.
Neutrinos, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The Earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
(John Updike, “Cosmic Gall”)
So I am to understand then that, for example, the theory of gravity is just that? A theory? So much for the “laws” of physics then.
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