The beauty of science, their results will have to be duplicated before they are excepted.
We never seem to learn on these things. Already they are starting to
hedge the wording with "it appears" and "if it's true". The effect is so small that it could easily be a simple calibration error. But we have Chicken Little running around yelling that the sky is falling. It could easily be an over eager publicity hungry researcher successfully manipulating a gullible news media. Remember Cold Fusion? The inability to recreate the results was a long drawn out process and the news media didn't have the attention span to follow it through. So some people still believe in it.
Remember quantuum entanglement? It was supposed to give us faster than light communications and transponder beams. It hasn't happened and really the initial science never claimed what the hype presented as solid fact. No wonder we have to deal with UFO and Mayan calendar speculations when we try to educate the public on the science of Astronomy. DT From: Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Faster than the Speed of Light
Nice catch Nancy. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
Sounds like even the CERN folks think there was a some sort of error. Stay tuned I guess.
For those who haven't read this yet. Neutrinos have been clocked faster
than the speed of light.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629271/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Nancy
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