I'm old enough to not pay much attention to these 'scientific breakthroughs' announced across the sports or comics page. Remember cold fusion? Often a 'scientist' gets drunk and spills out nonsense to a reporter barely catching up with the spelling of the buzzwords, and suddenly the Earth isn't flat anymore... I put $20 on 3 >= 1 > 2, same as Poul, without having read the article.
jose -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:17 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Fast than light neutrino On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Bill Dailey <docdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > The complicating factor here is they aren't really sure if neutrinos actually have mass. Therefore they may not need adhere to the mass portion of relativity and hence may be more like photons. They won't put forth ANY suppositions until they are sure they haven't made a mistake. I think we all want these neutrinos to be faster than C (not just faster then photons) because it would be fun to live through a revolution in physics. A simple mis-calculation would be so boring. If I had to bet I'd bet on the boring error that was missed by 100 co-authors. I'd be happy to loose my bet. Can we assume for a minute the result is correct and they really are literally faster than C. What does it mean to be faster than C at this large macroscopic scale of kilometers Fun to guess. Time must be running backwards. Or maybe they have negative mass. If truly faster than C, SOMETHING nonsensical must be true. Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.