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Originally Posted by PRBuzz
Warp speed: Scientist out of CERN have reported that they were able to measure a neutrino going faster than the speed of light. According to Einstein's Special Theory this should not be possible. Data still up for review&verification.
Distance traveled 454 miles (as I understand trajectory was through the earth, what an aim this gun has).
From my calculations:
Time expected: 24372 96 nanoseconds (for the non sci enabled: 0.00243 sec or much shorter time than the blink of an eye)
Time recored: 24372 36 nanoseconds (60 nanosecs to short a time, error only +/-10 nanoseconds).
Apparently Fermi lab in Chicago had a similar result back in 2007 but their measurement error was too great when firing neutrinos from Chicago to Minnesota.
Summary: Warp speeds >1 maybe be a reality......  |
From the department of “If it sounds too amazing to be true, you probably forgot to carry the three,” Edwin Cartlidge at Science Magazine is reporting that the
much-hyped report about subatomic particles that could travel faster than the speed of light, violating all sorts of rules of physics, was in fact probably the result of a snafu involving a fiber optic cable and a GPS receiver.
According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos’ flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos. New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.