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Neutrinos Not Faster Than Light After All :-(

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/science/einstein-proved-right-in-retest-of-neutrinos-speed.html

European researchers said Friday they had measured again the speed of a subatomic particle that a September experiment suggested traveled faster than the speed of light, violating Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which underlies much of modern physics.

The research team, led by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carlo Rubbia, found that the particles, neutrinos, do not travel faster than light.

Mr. Rubbia’s team, called Icarus, measured the speed of neutrinos fired from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland, to a detector 453 miles away in Italy.

“The results are very convincing,” Mr. Rubbia said, “and they tell us essentially that there was something not quite right with the results of Opera.”

Opera was the team that reported in September that its tests appeared to show neutrinos speeding faster than light, prompting widespread disbelief among scientists.

Just closing the loop on the original thread here

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/631091-interesting-science-news-faster-than-light-neutrino-4.html

Just finished Isaacson's biography of Einstein. Good to see that his special (and general) theories of relativity remain valid. An amazing mind.

Maybe it needs to grip it by the husk...

A well set up neutrino - and Einstein is toast.

Its actually kind of disappointing. But kind of expected. But disappointing.

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Originally Posted by Chocaholic (Post 6629354)

Just finished Isaacson's biography of Einstein. Good to see that his special (and general) theories of relativity remain valid. An amazing mind.

I'm almost finished with it. So many things I didn't know about Einstein. Truly a genius as was Newton.

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Originally Posted by dottore (Post 6629631)

a well set up neutrino - and einstein is toast.

Well played.

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 6629564)

Maybe it needs to grip it by the husk...

silly rabbit... light has no husk.