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alp227

(33,217 posts) Fri Mar 16, 2012, 11:57 PM Mar 2012

Einstein Proved Right in Retest of Neutrinos’ Speed [View all]

Source: AP

Einstein may have been right after all.

European researchers said Friday they had measured again the speed of a subatomic particle that a September experiment suggested traveled faster than the speed of light, violating Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which underlies much of modern physics.

The research team, led by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carlo Rubbia, found that the particles, neutrinos, do not travel faster than light.

Mr. Rubbia’s team, called Icarus, measured the speed of neutrinos fired from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland, to a detector 453 miles away in Italy.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/science/einstein-proved-right-in-retest-of-neutrinos-speed.html

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Einstein Proved Right in Retest of Neutrinos’ Speed [View all] alp227 Mar 2012 OP

Still gonna get 67,000,000 points on their drivers licenses. tclambert Mar 2012 #1

DUzy of a post longship Mar 2012 #2

Sooner or later he was bound to get a lucky guess right. bluedigger Mar 2012 #3

More accurately "Einstein Not Proved Wrong in Retest of Neutrinos' Speed" FarCenter Mar 2012 #4

I was just going to post the same thing. n/t Gore1FL Mar 2012 #8

Hardware problem slackmaster Mar 2012 #5

It really christx30 Mar 2012 #6

He had some deficiencies in math. girl gone mad Mar 2012 #13

Einstein = Most over-hyped scientist in history. harun Mar 2012 #7

Are you saying that to elevate others or to bash Einstein? n/t Gore1FL Mar 2012 #9

I think Issac Newton makes the top of that list Exultant Democracy Mar 2012 #20

Nah; "particles" can't travel faster than light. But impulses can. Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #10

But what if your 3 foot pencil were... Ferretherder Mar 2012 #11

Yes it would Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #18

No it wouldn't. harun Mar 2012 #24

Nope. Wrong. The impulse is traveling at the speed of the pencil, no faster. saras Mar 2012 #12

Think again Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #17

Assume (hypothetically) a perfectly rigid pole; as soon as you push one end, the other moves Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #27

Locking itsrobert Mar 2012 #14

"...neutrinos, do not travel faster than light." unkachuck Mar 2012 #15

If entangled particles are mad at you for going out with the guys and getting drunk, tclambert Mar 2012 #16

Entangled particles might communicate by FTL impulses similar to those noted by Woodbridge Goodman Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #19

Think again FiveGoodMen Mar 2012 #21

Can you give an example of an entirely solid object? Or does it only exist in theory? In such a vanbean Mar 2012 #25

How to communicate 100,000 times faster than light; Dr. W. Goodman PhD Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #26

Now, I'm not a fancy pants theoretical physicist (crowd gasps) gratuitous Mar 2012 #22

Easy Silent3 Mar 2012 #28

Though? Light, photons, might be considered "particles," and/or objects. Travelling at speed Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #29

I'm not sure what point you're making Silent3 Mar 2012 #30

No substantive objection to your protocol; thanks for your excellent clarification Brettongarcia Mar 2012 #31

CERN davidhaslanded Mar 2012 #23