The neutrino experiment went through the Earth. There are some serious questions about it concerning the possibility of the scientists' not taking account of Earth's rotation regarding relativistic effects -- that is, frame rotation. I don't claim to understand it well and I personally am not confident about this new paper, but here it is: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6160 -- best wishes, Joe ________________________________ From: Ian Glenn <root.ibg@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Faster than the Speed of Light I guess I haven't seen the presentation, but I thought the neutrinos were passed through the particle accelerator tunnel, not the Earth's crust, otherwise why did they dig that huge circle out? On a less serious note, here is an alternate explanation for the FTL neutrinos: http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/24/bored-neutrino-cant-get-out-of-switzer... Ian On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/27/11, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
My own preliminary Oczam's Razor question about their presentation is how the CERN scientists compensated for the known faster-then-light effect associated with the refractive index (which I also posted about upthread) when light passes through a solid substance. They passed their signal through the Earth's crust, which is composed of many different materials. How did the CERN researchers compensate for the unknown composition of materials? That would be a simple Oczam's Razor explanation for their results.
My understanding is that only photons are subject to classical refraction effects, not neutrinos.
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