Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: TN4Liberty
more tests are needed, and on other experimental setups.

Quite right. This second experiment presumably measures time-of-flight in the same way as the first one did - and I'm betting there's an incorrect assumption (or perhaps subtle equipment malfunction) in that measurement.

17 posted on 11/18/2011 12:08:02 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: JustSayNoToNannies
Quite right. This second experiment presumably measures time-of-flight in the same way as the first one did - and I'm betting there's an incorrect assumption (or perhaps subtle equipment malfunction) in that measurement.

I think I recall reading that they didn't take the orbital motion of the GPS satellites into account, with respect to the difference in inertial reference frame of the GPS clock and the surface clock. They apparently calculated as if the GPS clocks were on the ground, not in orbit.

Ah yes, here we are:

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Result of GPS Movement

The motion, once factored in, came to almost exactly the time difference they measured in the neutrino arrival.

35 posted on 11/18/2011 12:30:14 PM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson