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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Head of 'faster-than-light' neutrinos team resigns
2012-03-31
Can't resist.
GENEVA - The scientist who headed a European research team that last year measured particles traveling faster than light has resigned.

Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics says Antonio Ereditato has stepped down from the leadership of the OPERA experiment weeks after a rival team cast doubt on the accuracy of its readings. Ereditato confirmed his resignation to The Associated Press in an email Friday but declined to comment further.
I guess that "close enough for government work" thing doesn't fly over there?
The OPERA team's measurements on the speed of neutrinos were met with surprise by the scientific community when announced in September. According to Albert Einstein's theories, nothing can travel faster than light.
Hey, they said there'd be no math...
Posted by:Steve White

#7  As much as I enjoy engaging in public mockery, I'm going to stand up for the CERN guys. They did their experiment, got some *very* interesting results and then PUBLISHED THEIR WORK for open critique. This is exactly how the game is played.

Compare this with Mann and the rest of those global warming grifters who literally said we can't show you our data and methods, you would only try to find something wrong with it.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-03-31 18:36  

#6  The neutrino has 3 flavours and alternates "rapidly" between them...

If it travelled at light speed it would have 100% time dilation and therefore it would be impossible to alternate.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-03-31 10:47  

#5  Is the mass of the neutrino a component of "dark matter"?

All this stuff makes me laugh as there are so many truck sized holes in the "theories". Sure the math may hold together but all that means is that there is a mathematical puzzle, kind of like the relationship of the Great pyramid to Pi (an artifact of the way they did measurements).
Posted by: AlanC   2012-03-31 09:58  

#4  The neutrino has a small but non-zero mass. Wouldn't the neutrino mass become infinite according to Einstein's theory when the speed of light was achieved?

Is this one of those deals like green energy, global warming, the Volt, etc.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-03-31 09:37  

#3  
Posted by: gorb   2012-03-31 00:48  

#2  Nice to know that there are still some areas of scientific research there sensationalism still carries a price.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-03-31 00:46  

#1  Fear not, TREK fans, Russia is coming to save the day for America = Amerika, vee start construction of NUCLEAR SPACE ENGINES come Year 2017.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-03-31 00:36  

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