Redone OPERA Experiment Confirms that The Neutrinos are indeed faster than light

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The OPERA Collaboration sent to the Cornell Arxiv a new preprint today, where they summarize the results of their analysis, expanded with additional statistical tests, and including the check performed with 20 additional neutrino interactions they collected in the last few weeks. These few extra timing measurements crucially allow the ruling out of some potential unaccounted sources of systematic uncertainty, notably ones connected to the knowledge of the proton spill time distribution.

These benefits come from CERN, where proton bunches have been made much shorter: down to three nanosecond long pulses. That means that OPERA can measure the speed of each detected neutrino separately! Of course, with such short pulses, the statistics of protons on target is "only" of 4x10^16, but this is still enough to reach meaningful results from the additional data.

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This topic is just to confirm that the neutrinos are in fact faster than the speed of light, and how mostly all controversial claims have been ruled out.
 
Avidius Cassius 说:
This topic is just to confirm that the neutrinos are in fact faster than the speed of light, and how mostly all controversial claims have been ruled out.
No they haven't. One big doubt still remaining is the precise distance between the sender and receiver which has yet to be re-measured; when we're talking nano-seconds even the smallest inaccuracy in the distance they are travelling would explain the result.

Adorno 说:
Now we just have to wait 20 years for a new Einstein to explain it.
It doesn't necessarily invalidate Einstein. Einstein set the speed limit at the speed of light in a vacuum, the problem for light is actually finding said vacuum. Or rather as we know (which Einstein didn't), even vacuum isn't empty. Because photons are more reactive than neutrons we would expect the former to be slowed down by whatever it was passing through much more than the latter; in which case light speed still hasn't been broken, we're simply seeing what would happen if light was less reactive than it is.
 
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