Whoa! Faster than light?

[yssie]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ftl-neutrinos


I wonder how on earth you go about figuring out what sorts of error you're talking about with something like this? Crazy!

 

[Porridge]

Very interesting but there is a lot of question surrounding it at the moment. It contradicts earlier evidence and IIRC has yet to be peer reviewed.

If true it would be amazingly groundbreaking, earth-shattering stuff.

I'm not convinced yet, but it is incredibly interesting. At the moment, it's like saying I run 5K every day. Usually takes me 40 mins. However, I ran last night, and it took me 30 mins! Now is the likelihood that I suddenly sped up very significantly? Or that I forgot to run a lap? Or that my timing was off?

It's POSSIBLE. It's just highly improbable, and requires more scrutiny before it can be accepted.

Still though. Wow! Everything they do there boggles my mind.

 

[natascha]

This is part of why I stopped studying physics after high school. I mean the whole 1+1 does not equal two instead the sum of two atoms has a larger mass then the two had individually had me going . Now you are telling me that they leave the pairing with a higher speed than anticipated?

At least with economics you can blame all the illogical stuff on the human factor,