Faster than light? Orly?

[HippyH]

Finding puts brakes on faster-than-light neutrinos : Nature News

[sbooder]

Reading that, it appears likely that it will be at least a couple of years until we really know if the results are correct.

[GeorgeB]

I've got my own pet theory about this. The neutrino detector is located at L'Aquila in Italy, which was the scene of a big earthquake in 2009. There would have been crustal faulting which could have shifted the L'Aquila laboratory a couple of metres closer to the neutrino emitter at CERN. If they are using the pre-earthquake distance in their calculations, then this could account for the "extra fast" neutrinos.

Bet then again I could be talking out of my hat

[JB80]

They have taken all that into account, they were very thorough in their paper with a section devoted entirely to the earth shifting.

[sbooder]

I wonder if the cleaner in Italy, moved the detecting equipment closer to mop underneath and forgot to move it back...Doh! these cleaners!

[cantab]

They actually measured the distances precisely enough to see the slow change from continental drift, and the sudden "jump" caused by the earthquake.