Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results

smolloy writes "It would appear that the hotly debated faster-than-light neutrino observation at CERN is the result of a fault in the connection between a GPS unit and a computer. This connection was used to correct for time delays in the neutrino flight, and after fixing the correction the researchers have found that the time discrepancy appears to have vanished."

Comments

Man the life rafts. Division by zero imminent.

[bmo]

>Minding my own business and setting up the next neutrino experiment
  >The director of CERN has me on the phone
  >"What is it mein fuhrer?"
  >"SERGIO! EL EXPERIMENT NO WORKO! NO GUSTA! NEUTRINO TOO FAST!"
  >Go to Italy, find that there is spaghetti sauce on the detector, ravioli on the the reflectors, pizza in the mass spectrometer, pepperoncini in the heatsink, wine cooling the magnets, langostini in the computer refrigerant, beans cooking on the laser, and olive oil in the PSU.
  >Fuck it, I'm going to Greece.
  >Go to Greece.
  >Considering marrying a Greek girl
  >Berlusconi is there
  >Talks to me about Greek girls
  >I get really hyped about Greek girls
  >Decide to marry one on the spot
  >Reach for the wedding ring
  >Suddenly, spaghetti spills out of my pocket
  >There's spaghetti on the floor
  >Everybody walk the dinosaur
  >Try to clean it all up
  >I look down
  >There's fur in the spaghetti, leading to the realization that I am a bear