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"One may then seriously question why this paper was published at all. Was it too difficult to wait one more year?" Time is not a matter. It was the result of measurements during past 5 yrs, and as any team they should publish results regularly. The unusual thing they did not check equipments...

All right. Thank you, ICARUS.

"...in the time of Einstein, even many scientists refused the idea, that there can be any wrong with the good Newtonian image of the world." Again, not quite right. Even before the Einstein's birth the relativity theory already implicitly existed. The Lorentz transformations were already...

"Sorry, i don't want to be rude, but IMHO, they shouldn't have cared about theory of relativity in the first place, if they had shared this mentality." Quite the contrary. It is because we are primarily concerned the theory of relativity, since "c" is a universal constant (not just speed of...

Serious theoreticians do not respond to the "discovery" of overturning all of modern physics.

It's good they found errors themself. Otherwise it would be a shame, especially when MINOS will spend couple millions to find their errors.

One more thing from http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/faster-than-light-neutrinos-opera.html?ref=ra: " The collaboration has also checked its original statistical analysis, but today's decision to submit the results to a journal was not unanimous. "About four people" among...

I agree, at least we all have a job to scratch our heads for the next several months. But I still on the skeptical side, because there are no a clear answer to why ICARUS and NOMAD contradict to the OPERA experiment and why FTL neutrinos do not radiate e^{+}-e^{-} pairs. There are, probably...

Do you completely deleted other messages, or put them in some kind of archive? Personally I intended to copy all of them, because most of them contain some interesting points and simply deleting is not wise. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do it at ones: thread tools "Show Printable...

So, they decided to proceed in this way, but with much less width: "The new measurements will involve a change in the CERN neutrino beam. CERN makes the particles by colliding proton pulses with a graphite target, with each pulse being about 10,500 nanoseconds long. CERN has now split these...

Altitude 20,000 km. http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/space/

DrChinese "The speed of light in a vacuum of course is equal to the speed of a neutrino in a vacuum." Today in 2011, not all physicists think so (the above is article from Gran Sasso National Laboratory which just appeared in ArXiv.org). This is a serious attempt to crash our fundamental...

Do you mean this http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1109/1109.4897.pdf?

xts It depends on the size of the detector's cell. With modern solid detectors it can be on nanoscale.

Immediately after collapse of a wavefunction, the second measurement gives you the same observable value as before. All track detectors (Wilson chamber, bubble chamber, solid-state detectors, microchannel plate detector, etc.) confirm this. You may consider each bubble as a one particular...