Monday, February 27, 2012
Just an addendum to the Particle Physics Questions raised by Uncle Bart and Noel: the new official word is that No, neutrinos aren't passing through the Alps at faster than light speed. I think it may make my Ticom Geomatics friends a little squirmy to hear that it sprang for a loose cable in the GPS monitoring system the experimenters used for their timing. See this article for an update:http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/22/einstein-was-right-all-along-faster-than-light-neutrino-was-product-of-error/?xid=newsletter-weekly
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I'm actually kind of pleased. It's good to know that the scientists on the forefront of our human knowledge make the same sort of mistakes the rest of us do.
Also, if we're being honest with ourselves, this was the most likely outcome anyway. The speed of light is...pretty well established.
Well, Noel warned us this was the most likely outcome. I'll just shuffle off quietly and go read some old Kurt Vonnegut novel or something.
Neutrino-powered time travel was going to be so much fun. Sigh . . .
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