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FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-definite-possibility dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "A new paper, recently posted on the arXiv physics preprint server, claims to have explained the faster-than-light neutrino experiment from last month. The author claims the motion of the GPS satellite introduces a relativistic dilation that accounts for the now-infamous 60 ns discrepancy in neutrino flight time. However, I'm not so sure; the original experimenters claimed to have accounted for relativistic effects. I don't think we've seen the end of this just yet."

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  1. Re:I hope that this is true. by muon-catalyzed · · Score: 0, Troll

    This whole story is nonsense. FTL? How much faster? 10000x 10x ? They measured the actual difference is like 1.00001x faster, so this is of total insignificance, a nuance, measurement error most likely, relativity itself might explain the negligible difference. This is not even news worthy and would have zero impact even if proven true.