Einstein Got It Wrong?

[Paul98]

As expected, not too exciting. But now we can stop with the idiots trying to cling to a single unverified experiment, to disprove something that they don't like since scientists tell them it's reality.

 

[Muse]

There goes the excitement. Scientists can be such killjoys, with all their facts and stuff.

I have always had an immense confidence in Albert Einstein. For one thing he seems to have been his own harshest critic, something you don't find a lot in people. He openly declared where he thought he went wrong in his work. Again and again his major findings have proven to be accurate when tested. I believe he advanced science as much or more than any one person in the last 200 years. I'm not qualified to assert that but I think it's probably true.

 

[Paul98]

Here is the press release from Cern:

"OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran SassoUPDATE 23 February 2012

The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement. These both require further tests with a short pulsed beam. If confirmed, one would increase the size of the measured effect, the other would diminish it. The first possible effect concerns an oscillator used to provide the time stamps for GPS synchronizations. It could have led to an overestimate of the neutrino's time of flight. The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings the external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the neutrinos. The potential extent of these two effects is being studied by the OPERA collaboration. New measurements with short pulsed beams are scheduled for May. "

 

[Printer Bandit]

CERN has lost all credibility. shut it down.

 

[First]

Fermilab was shut down when the U.S. lost out on the bidding for CERN.

The only staff left has been dismantling it.

The U.S. is a 2nd world country now in everything including science.

Stop posting troll.

 

[JEDIYoda]

opps...

 

[JEDIYoda]

CERN says a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near Geneva to a lab 454 miles (730 kilometers) away in Italy traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference statistically significant. But given the enormous implications of the find, they still spent months checking and rechecking their results to make sure there were no flaws in the experiment. --- but if it was wind aided then it doesn`t count...lol

But thats cool anyways!!

 

[Fern]

They found two possible sources of inaccuracy, but each influencing the results in the opposite way.

I think we should just be patient and let them finish their work.

Fern