Aestu wrote:
Sounds to me like an extremely marginal technical error married with glory-seeking self-promotion veiled as peer review (which is why all the hubbub in mainstream media and not journals)...
...if the experiment was not flawed (which I think most likely)...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17139635Quote:
"I think they were a little bit in a hurry to publish something that was astonishing, and at the end of the day it was a wrong measurement."...
...But the team also said they found a problem in the optical fibre connection between the GPS signal and the experiment's main clock - quite simply, a cable not quite fully plugged in.
In contrast, the team said that effect would increase the neutrinos' apparent speed.

Everyone read this thread and no one came to the same conclusion I did.
(also see: Fukushima thread)
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I've gotten this kind of bullshit from people about too many issues to count but curiously no one ever comes back and says "Oh, damn, you were right." That is why I feel quite secure in my arrogance; because no matter how many times I'm proven correct or the lengths to which I go to outline my logic, people will continue to unimaginatively believe what they will.