Amidst the headlines, a cool look at the story:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/neutrinos-travel-faster-than-lig.html?ref=hp
And a more informative article here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-light-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/
And a cart
Of course, that's one outlier; one measurement 6 nanoseconds over the speed of
light when the margin of error is considered to be 2 nanoseconds. There are a
lot of qualifiers in the actual article. A big IF
Old joke:
They said Galileo was crazy;
They said Einstein was crazy;
They said that
Hi
And then again ... it is not at all obvious that some sub-atomic particle
traveling 90 km a few nanoseconds faster than expected would help at all in
"seeing into the future" seconds and minutes ahead, or hours, days, and years
in lay cases. Of course, that won't stop some people from serio
..said Mike Palij (yada, yada):
Bem certainly thinks so.
About to be published:
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 Oct;101(4):716-9.
Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data?
Bem DJ, Utts J, Johnson WO.
Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, and van der Maas (2011) argued that
psychologists sh
An interesting article in today's NY Times on a startling finding by
physicists at CERN. One theorist at CERN is quoted as saying:
"If it is true, then we truly haven't understood anything about anything."
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23speed.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=th