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Originally Posted by surferguy
If true, remember CP was the place you first heard about the revelation that will redirect the path of human society.
Very exciting news if true!
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Actually, I read about it on Ars Technica first.
An interesting thing from the ars article:
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Fermilab's MINOS experiment has also measured the speed of neutrinos that are produced on-site near Chicago, then sent to a detector in a mine in Minnesota. "MINOS also measured a faster-than-light value of the neutrino speed," MINOS co-spokesperson Jenny Thomas told Ars, "but the errors were so big we dismissed it."
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Perhaps they weren't errors?
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...than-light.ars
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After accounting for all the sources of error, the people running the OPERA experiment expect that their measurements may be off by as much as 10 nanoseconds. The neutrinos got there 60 nanoseconds ahead of when we'd expect them to arrive if they were moving at the speed of light.
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Edit: And from another article, this one in Nature:
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The researchers claim to have measured the 730-kilometre trip between CERN and its detector to within 20 centimetres. They can measure the time of the trip to within 10 nanoseconds, and they have seen the effect in more than 16,000 events measured over the past two years. Given all this, they believe the result has a significance of six-sigma — the physicists' way of saying it is certainly correct.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/1109....2011.554.html
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Last edited by Bobblehead; 09-22-2011 at 03:43 PM.
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