OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results 442
gbrumfiel writes "Earlier this year, the OPERA experiment made the extraordinary claim that they had seen neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. The experiment, located at Gran Sasso in Italy, saw neutrinos arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected from their starting point at CERN in Switzerland. Others have doubted OPERA's claim, but in a new paper, the group reaffirms its commitment to the measurement. 'It's slightly better than the previous result,' OPERA's physics coordinator Dario Autiero told Nature News. Most members of the collaboration who didn't sign the original paper out of skepticism have now come on board. But scientists outside the group still aren't sure. 'Independent checks are the way to go,' says Rob Plunkett, co-spokesman of a rival experiment called MINOS."
Tachyon pulses into shield grids (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Supernovas (Score:2, Funny)
This is so yesterday.
Typical Italian sense of time (Score:5, Funny)
I think I speak for all of us... (Score:0, Funny)
Is this going to make their browser run Farmville even faster?
Re:More tests please. (Score:5, Funny)
They're probably still trying to sync with time.windows.com. It's a common mistake.
Might the time of day have an effect here? (Score:5, Funny)
I notice that lunch-time definitely passes faster than any other time.
Re:Supernovas (Score:5, Funny)
No, but it is fair to say that he's speaking Philosophy. Keep in mind that religion doesn't necessarily have to involve a god or God. The Scientologists have apparently made off well without God...
Re:Typical Italian sense of time (Score:5, Funny)
As an italian I can testify you are wrong.
You don't arrive late thinking you are in time.
You arrive late and blame traffic, war, biblical plagues; and share simpaty with other meeting partecipants.
I hope the neutrinos were early (for the sake of new physics), but still, they were behaving terribly rude! ;)
Opera is faster than light? (Score:5, Funny)
Opera is faster than light? That should put Google's chrome out of business.
Skepticism is fine (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Supernovas (Score:3, Funny)
Well, there are two possibilities here, one of the is that anonymous GP is a prat.
The other is, WOOOSH.
Wait, was that a neutrino?
Release Schedules out of control (Score:5, Funny)
These browser release schedules are getting out of control. First, FireFox considered updating as often as once every 5 weeks. Now, Opera is going to top them by developing faster than light technology so they can post updates before their predecessors were released! (Side note: I'm now running Opera version 10,573 and it's great. I expect to be able to update to 10,574 yesterday.)
bring back Mussolini (Score:5, Funny)
In Italy, at least the Tachyon's run on time.
Re:Supernovas (Score:5, Funny)
Light travels at C, Neutrinos travel at C++
Re:Supernovas (Score:3, Funny)
And how much of a vacuum can you really get in this universe?
Quite a bit, if we could get every politician in the world to participate...
Re:Supernovas (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Skepticism is fine (Score:3, Funny)
Verbs, for example.
Faster than Light (Score:2, Funny)
We don't serve faster than light particles here.
A neutrino walks into a bar.