News Speed of light broken?

[Unstung]

There will still be many people who believe something (neutrinos) went faster than the speed of light; I don't expect this news to become that popular.

 

[AquarianM]

A friend of mine sent an e-mail today stating that they diagnosed the result as being due to a loose fiber optic cable connection between a PC and a GPS receiver. ( http://www.livescience.com/18603-error-faster-light-neutrinos.html ) Disappointing, I agree. I would've love to have seen the speed of light broken, as it's a tough limit for any proponent of interstellar travel.

Dan

 

[ADSWNJ]

A friend of mine sent an e-mail today stating that they diagnosed the result as being due to a loose fiber optic cable connection between a PC and a GPS receiver. ( http://www.livescience.com/18603-error-faster-light-neutrinos.html ) Disappointing, I agree. I would've love to have seen the speed of light broken, as it's a tough limit for any proponent of interstellar travel.

Dan

There's a Man in Black man somewhere with the flashy eye thing. "What you saw, son, was a loose cable, and you didn't just see the speed of light being broken multiple times."

 

[T.Neo]

Oh blegh. I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive... :lol:

 

[RisingFury]

I feel like my heart got ripped out...:suicide:

You have no idea how science works.

Well this is good news.

If you get an odd result, you expect an error rather than something else. So if this was the case then many people will sleep a bit better.

This is what science does, find answers to questions and find questions to ask.

Alright then, there would be no complicated equations to explain why everything can't exceed the speed of light except for neutrino

No, this is boring news. Would have been much more exciting if we didn't understand how the Universe worked and we needed to find an even better model for it than General Relativity. Think of all the Nobel Physics prizes that would get handed out...

There will still be many people who believe something (neutrinos) went faster than the speed of light; I don't expect this news to become that popular.

Well, that's their problem, isn't it?

Oh blegh. I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive... :lol:

You can want all you want...

 

[Ghostrider]

You have no idea how science works.

Yeah. Scientifically speaking, ripping out someone's heart makes no sense. We have them scalpels, circular saws and whatever to do it.:thumbup:

 

[T.Neo]

You can want all you want...

Stop being such a buzzkill.

 

[RisingFury]

Yeah. Scientifically speaking, ripping out someone's heart makes no sense. We have them scalpels, circular saws and whatever to do it.:thumbup:

You can't hope for some revolutionary technology when all you have is a single, highly disputed data point. I bet a lot of people want cold fusion, but we just can't have it.

 

[Cras]

Well at least some got the joke.

 

[Ghostrider]

You can't hope for some revolutionary technology when all you have is a single, highly disputed data point. I bet a lot of people want cold fusion, but we just can't have it.

Hey, circular saws are a proven technology, far from revolutionary... And so are scalpels. However, I heard from some Aztec types you can do it with obsidian knives.

 

[jedidia]

Hey, circular saws are a proven technology, far from revolutionary... And so are scalpels. However, I heard from some Aztec types you can do it with obsidian knives.

Or by spouting stuff like "moleram, suleram" long enough... :shifty:

 

[Ghostrider]

Or by spouting stuff like "moleram, suleram" long enough... :shifty:

You have betrayed Shiva! Tum Shiva ke wishwaas karte ho!

 

[orb]

Universe Today: Neutrinos Obey The Speed Limit, After All:

Neutrinos have been cleared of allegations of speeding, according to an announcement issued today by CERN and the ICARUS experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory. Turns out they travel exactly as fast as they should, and not a nanosecond more.

{...}

Discovery News: Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos (Probably) Don't Exist

 

[Jarvitä]

In other news, I made around 60€ in bets by applying basic tenets of rational experimentation to this result. I eagerly await the retractions and corrections from everyone who has been generating hype around "FTL neutrinos".

 

[Ghostrider]

In other news, I made around 60€ in bets by applying basic tenets of rational experimentation to this result.

Only 60€? Man, you need some basic tenets on betting. You could have made ten times that amount with a little baiting.:thumbup:

 

[Jarvitä]

Only 60€? Man, you need some basic tenets on betting. You could have made ten times that amount with a little baiting.:thumbup:

Alas, I couldn't find anyone willing to put more of their money where their probability estimates were.

 

[jedidia]

Now that you mention it, I am a bit surprised that you couldn't bet on it in Bosnian bet-shops... I mean, you usually can bet on anything in those.

Then again, maybe better that way. They might have tried to jinx the results :lol:

 

[Notebook]

BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17560379

Neutrino 'faster than light' scientist resigns

N.

 

[NovaSilisko]

This is like the science version of the ages of coverage following Michael Jackson's death...

 

[jedidia]

Seems a bit harsh. I mean, he never struck me as sensationalist and went through the proper channels, I don't see much he could have done differently with the numbers turning up the way they did...