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CERN powns Einstein or makes a big mistake



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#1 Posted 23 September 2011 - 08:04 PM

CERN, the guys who brought you the not-black-hole-inducing-particle-accelerator, now have fired neutrino's who go faster than the speed of light.

Here's an article detailing on what's happened and what it might mean.

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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, the world's largest physics lab, say they have clocked subatomic particles, called neutrinos, traveling faster than light
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CERN reported that a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near Geneva to a lab 454 miles (730 kilometers) away in Italy traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds.


It could very likely be an error, but if it's true this could be very interesting.
Did it really go beyond the speed of light, or did some other phenomena occur.
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#2 Posted 23 September 2011 - 08:22 PM

Oh come on, fucking internet, always blowing things out of proportion with cheap headline grabs.

"Unverified experiment contradicts pre-established, thousands of times verified scientific theory", whooptidoo. Watch as nobody cares in a week, physicists or general public.

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#4 Posted 23 September 2011 - 09:44 PM

View PostBerrie, on 23 September 2011 - 04:04 PM, said:

CERN, the guys who brought you the not-black-hole-inducing-particle-accelerator, now have fired neutrino's who go


you are incorrect sir, it does induce black holes, but they evaporate quickly...



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#5 Posted 24 September 2011 - 04:04 AM

View Postsuicide_mission, on 23 September 2011 - 03:44 PM, said:

you are incorrect sir, it does induce black holes, but they evaporate quickly...

That's what she said.

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#6 Posted 24 September 2011 - 12:12 PM

A worth while link on the subject...

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-15034852

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#7 Posted 24 September 2011 - 02:20 PM

the deviation is soo small that it could be very well a measurement error.
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#8 Posted 24 September 2011 - 04:11 PM

Actually, though this quite likely an error, they've calculated their instrumental deviation as being 10 nanoseconds.
They've been sitting on these findings for months.

Also I'm not afraid to admit I have a bit of a man-crush on Brain Cox.
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#9 Posted 26 September 2011 - 09:51 AM

This is cool news, CERN is trying to find out where they messed up, but REALLY can't find it.

So now it's up for reproduction.

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