BBC News - Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern: "The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.Deniers! The science is settled!
In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up a few billionths of a second sooner than light would over the same distance.
The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.
But the group understands that what are known as "systematic errors" could easily make an erroneous result look like a breaking of the ultimate speed limit, and that has motivated them to publish their measurements."
Off with their funding!
Heh. Did I forget to mention Galileo?
UPDATE: The jokes begin:
“We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” said the bartender.Heh.
A neutrino walks into a bar.
Posts
