RE: Neutrinos still travel faster than light
November 18, 2011 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2011 at 4:31 pm by Milky Tea.)
I disagree
The critics concerns were valid hence the further testing, there remains further issues which need to be addressed, the paper hasn't been peer reviewed and published, and there hasn't been any corroboration of the results by the wider scientific community. These findings are still very much up in the air which was stated by the CERN team.
In this weeks New Scientists criticism was levelled at media claims that this represents a overturning to Einstein's special relativity because special relatively predicts that an object travelling less than the speed of light cannot be accelerated to the speed or life, and does not preclude an object existing that begins it's existence travelling faster than the speed of life. The analogy in New Scientist is that just because people people living on one side of a mountain felt it was impossible to cross does not mean that there isn't anyone living on the other side. Neutrino's, if these results are confirmed, may come into existance travelling faster than the speed of light.
Personally I'm going to let the scientific process run it's course and reserve judgement until these findings have been subject to the appropriate examination rather than pick sides now and argue for an untenable position.
The critics concerns were valid hence the further testing, there remains further issues which need to be addressed, the paper hasn't been peer reviewed and published, and there hasn't been any corroboration of the results by the wider scientific community. These findings are still very much up in the air which was stated by the CERN team.
Quote:"This additional test we made is confirming our original finding, but still we have to be very prudent, still we have to look forward to independent confirmation. But this is a positive result."
In this weeks New Scientists criticism was levelled at media claims that this represents a overturning to Einstein's special relativity because special relatively predicts that an object travelling less than the speed of light cannot be accelerated to the speed or life, and does not preclude an object existing that begins it's existence travelling faster than the speed of life. The analogy in New Scientist is that just because people people living on one side of a mountain felt it was impossible to cross does not mean that there isn't anyone living on the other side. Neutrino's, if these results are confirmed, may come into existance travelling faster than the speed of light.
Personally I'm going to let the scientific process run it's course and reserve judgement until these findings have been subject to the appropriate examination rather than pick sides now and argue for an untenable position.
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