OPERA Experiment Scientists' Astonishing Claim - Faster Than the Speed of Light? - BBC Two

[geffel]

I wondered what Oprah was up to these days.

Good for her...

[ravendon]

Nuculus? Or Nucleus?

[PowerMaxful]

Is it true now?

[MrGetthefuckup]

The finding of the team have been pretty much debunked now. It isn't definite that neutrons are not going faster than light but it seems extremely unlikely. I think it was on the skeptics guide to the universe, a point was bought up that seemingly makes this research invalid. There was a supernova explosion some years ago [or at least that is when we detected it, the supernova must of happened hundreds of thousands of years ago] and the neutrons arrived here at exactly at the predicted time

[MrGetthefuckup]

@MrGetthefuckup

If the neutrons had been travelling at the speed recorded in these experiments they would have arrived on our detectors 4 hours before they actually did [I think that is what they said] . I am assuming that a super nova explosion imparts far more energy than our collider so they should be more likely to break the speed barrier than this experiment. This should not have been reported to the press before it undertook peer review.

[fschnell]

@MrGetthefuckup neutron =/= neutrino

[MrGetthefuckup]

@fschnell

lol, yea they're the ones, I always get things mixed up when trying to type fast :)

[1001014]

why is a mathematician doing this program :/

[trhtpc]

It seems tha there is serious error in these measurements (movement of GPS satellites the didn't take into account), so I don't understand why BBC makes such a sensation of unproved exceeding of 'c'.

[davelantor]

Bulls eye !!!

Science ... WAY MORE amazing and accurate then claiming "god did it".

[alanpgoodwin]

They'd have done better to choose a narrator who can pronounce "nucleus".

[skylandcitizen]

Woah o.O