Why did the OPERA experiment fail to show FTL neutrinos?

[drphysica]

So did anybody have figured out why did OPERA experiment failed?? Does anyone know why neutrinos appear to travel FTL??

 

[berkeman]

So did anybody have figured out why did OPERA experiment failed?? Does anyone know why neutrinos appear to travel FTL??

Experimental error. You didn't read about it?

 

[phinds]

Yeah, I think it was a loose connector or something trivial that caused the experiment to give bogus results. Took forever to track it down, but it wasn't a big deal once it was finally isolated.

 

[berkeman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly

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[drphysica]

Loose connector is just a cover up story. The real reason why neutrions appear travel FTL is because of quantum tunneling. The physicists at CERN assumed that massles neutrions can penetrate the Earth crust without interuction and thus they didn't take into the consideration the quantum tunneling effect. If the same experiment was done through space we would observe normal light speed. Similar experiment has been done already where information was send FTL. ;)

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[berkeman]

Well what do you know, this thread is closed for Moderation.