Game Over for Faster Than Light Neutrinos?

[DuaneBidoux]

Source: ScienceBlogs

One of the most famous scientific developments in the 20th century was the revelation that the Universe had a speed limit: the speed of light.

Clocking in at exactly 299,792,458 m/s, Einstein's theory of relativity states that any particle with mass can only approach -- but can never reach -- this maximal speed.



Read more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/10/game_over_for_faster-than-ligh.php?utm_source=nytwidget

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Just to let you know: this is a serious blog written by serious scientists.

It is a rather complex article but if you want to get to the bottom line go toward the bottom of the piece. There are first inklings that there were mistakes in the OPERA results showing neutrinos traveling at faster than light speed.

(darn, I really do want warp drive!)

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop ever since this was first announced

Reminds me of the 'warm fusion' kerfuffle a couple of decades ago.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. They ripping the blog article apart in the comment section...

I do not have the education to say one way or another but I scrolled down through the comment section & it appears hardly anyone agrees with the blog post.

I guess we will have to continue waiting.

[jayfish]

6. The article is theoretical.

The OPERA data is observed. There will be no confirmation or debunking of the OPERA data until other labs either duplicate or fail to duplicate its results.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Finally: irrefutable scientific proof that astrology works !

The Billionaires & Trillionaires have known it all along !

[Ian David]

4. I read this post earlier, over the Neutrino internet, seconds before they posted it. n/t

[Speck Tater]

5. There's still the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline. nt

[TygrBright]

7. Only if you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. n/t

[humbled_opinion]

8. But only if, the antiparticle of the electron is positively charged.n/t

[greiner3]

9. THANK YOU, THANK YOU;

I have been trying to think of that excellent Asimov short story for some time. He sure knew how to write them. I wonder what he would have made of this news?

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Wow. Charles Krauthamer and the Intelligent Design crowd here will be crushed.

Remember, "THE HOUSE OF SCIENCE IS BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE!!!11!!" :woohoo:


Not to mention, "SEE???? JESUS IS COMING AND HE'S GONNA GIVE YOU MEAN ATHEISTS A TALKING TO!!!111!!!!!11111!!!"