OPERA : interviews of Antonio Ereditato and Dario Autiero

Interview of OPERA's spokesperson Antonio Ereditato of the University of Bern and Interview of Dario Autiero CNRS researcher in OPERA experiment
Results of the experiment OPERA.
The OPERA experiment, which observes a neutrino beam from CERN 730 km away at Italy's INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory, will present new results in a seminar at CERN today.

The OPERA result is based on the observation of over 15000 neutrino events measured at Gran Sasso, and appears to indicate that the neutrinos travel at a velocity 20 parts per million above the speed of light, nature's cosmic speed limit. Given the potential far-reaching consequences of such a result, independent measurements are needed before the effect can either be refuted or firmly established. This is why the OPERA collaboration has decided to open the result to broader scrutiny.

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[OtherVerse]

@saligari666

No, I smell more of the same bad work that I've been battling in various physics collaborations for the past couple of decades. You wouldn't believe the stories: a group of Italian postdocs who blow out a row of power supplies because they don't know how to wire up an extension cord, a French team whose electronics stop working because they don't know that certain capacitors have a polarity, an American team that tries to read microamperes off of a crude dial gauge... etc., etc.

[OtherVerse]

@saligari666

CERN collaborators come from all over the world. The gross ignorance and errors that I described are exactly what I'm talking about -- the CERN world is the world that I inhabit.

You might be amused to see the comments under another CERNTV video "LHCb - The Beauty Experiment." When I pointed out some huge important errors in the video's script, the video's producer defended his ego by quoting lines that weren't even in his video! We inhabit a new Dark Ages. Sad but true.

[httprover]

If the physics is correct then one would have to debug the procedure used determine the path for the neutrinos. Procedures all have assumptions associated with them. It might be best to reduce the number of assumptions made and do as Einstein said, "Keep it simple."

[httprover]

Did Einstein assume that the speed of light, in a space free of matter, was a constant? In optics the dielectric constant affects the speed of light and causes it to travel along curved paths. In General Relativity particles also travel along curved paths near massive objects. Could the amount of curvature be different for light and neutrinos? Or the speeds vary with gravitational potential?

[3vol3no]

Can it be considered that the neutrinos minute variability around 0 mass & charge can ultimately give them free reign in the space-time continuum? In effect, the particles are capable of skipping forward in space-time?

[KARX0]

@blackwolfsquadron Yes, so as I've already said that the results showed that creation of time machine will help him to travel in time. You said the same.

[blackwolfsquadron]

Not yet but maybe; If we ever discover the graviton, then it must have an anti-graviton particle. That is of course if a quantum theory of gravity can be developed. 

[blackwolfsquadron]

@KARX0 actually this only shows time travel is impossible; the neutrinos did not go back in time, they simply traveled faster than photons, if the results are indeed accurate. Further experiments will continue to reveal more about this.

[KARX0]

@Pegasys22 no, it means you will finally have your own time machine in a not so distant future.

[Pegasys22]

Does it mean i can finally have my hoverboard? =D

[kurtilein3]

@RufftaMan

... second comment that difference of a few seconds may be there because the light can only get out when the shockwave hits the surface of the star and when the star is ripped into pieces, while the neutrinos are emitted and can freely pass through the star as soon as the explosion starts in the center of the star. But over a distance of hundreds of light-years, these few seconds are a tiny error. Basically its based on the knowledge about how rapidly supernovas happen.