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The OPERA collaboration's reported velocity anomaly of neutrinos contradicts special relativity, prompting a reinterpretation that suggests neutrinos provide a more accurate measurement of Einstein's speed limit. This perspective posits that light and matter experience delays due to interactions with the dark universe. The discussion integrates these ideas into the dark-energy equation of state within an expanding Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe. Future measurements of temporal variations in redshift could clarify these interpretations.

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http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1109/1109.6520v1.pdf

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The velocity anomaly recently reported by the OPERA collaboration appears strikingly at odds
with the theory of special relativity. I offer a reinterpretation which removes this conflict, to wit that neutrinos yield a truer measurement of Einstein's limiting speed, and that light and indeed all other matter are retarded by additional interactions with the dark universe. I discuss existing experimental constraints and show that such a notion, considered cosmologically, can be subsumed in the dark-energy equation of state in an expanding Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe.
Planned measurements of the temporal variation in redshift have the potential to distinguish the possibilities.
 
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