Doug Kerr
Well-known member
My grasp of particle physics and relativity does not let me wholly appreciate this matter, but it seems astounding on at least two fronts.
Reportedly researchers at CERN, the European nuclear research institute (its acronym is a clever pun - Kern is German for kernel, or nucleus) have recently confirmed an earlier finding in which a burst of muons neutrinos apparently traverses a substantial distance (about 450 miles) at a speed greater than the accepted speed of light in a vacuum.
The discrepancy (approximately 1 part in 40,000) was said to be a "six-sigma" finding statistically.
Not surprisingly, this (if it continues to be further confirmed) promises to upset many accepted understandings in the area of relativity.
Even more pragmatically startling to me is that the propagation of the burst of neutrinos was done through 450 miles of solid rock from the CERN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to INFN-Gran Sasso Laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy. I had no idea that those little suckers could do that at any speed.
I would say that is rather beyond "line of sight".
Best regards,
Doug
Reportedly researchers at CERN, the European nuclear research institute (its acronym is a clever pun - Kern is German for kernel, or nucleus) have recently confirmed an earlier finding in which a burst of muons neutrinos apparently traverses a substantial distance (about 450 miles) at a speed greater than the accepted speed of light in a vacuum.
The discrepancy (approximately 1 part in 40,000) was said to be a "six-sigma" finding statistically.
Not surprisingly, this (if it continues to be further confirmed) promises to upset many accepted understandings in the area of relativity.
Even more pragmatically startling to me is that the propagation of the burst of neutrinos was done through 450 miles of solid rock from the CERN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to INFN-Gran Sasso Laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy. I had no idea that those little suckers could do that at any speed.
I would say that is rather beyond "line of sight".
Best regards,
Doug