Received from Isaac Marino Bavaresco at 09/23/11 14:23 UTC:

>Em 23/9/2011 10:48, smplx escreveu:
>>
>>  On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, IVP wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
>>>I think the neutrinos just get excited by a trip to Italy
>>>
>>>The figure I've seen is 20ppm faster than light. They allegedly arrived=
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>>>60ns before light would have, with an accountable error of 10ns
>>>
>>>One scientist asked why neutrinos haven't been observed (for whatever=20
>>>reason) ahead of supernovae, which they should do by a significant time=
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>>>period if at least one flavour of neutrino is 20ppm faster than light
>>>
>>>20ppm of 1 year is 10.5 minutes. Even 1ppm faster than light would be 30=
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>>>per lightyear distance
>>>
>>>Joe
>>
>>
>>60ns measured between 2 points lets you plot one point on a curve. If you=
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>>don't know what shape the curve is, assuming it's a straight line and=20
>>looking for other points on that line isn't going to get you anywhere :-)
>>
>>Regards
>>Sergio Masci
>
>
>The neutrinos traveled from Swiss to Italy inside rock (and perhaps magma)=
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>in a straight line. For neutrinos that's easy.  In the 60ns the light=20
>travels approximately 18m.
>
>My question is: Did they know the exact distance with a precision of a few=
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>meters between two points separated by 732km? Both buried under hundreds o=
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>meters of rock?
>
>I'm sure they could not send anything else through the same path to=20
>compare.  Another challenge would be the synchronization of the two clocks=
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>at such distance.
>
>Perhaps they are simply using a distance which is not that precise.


Until now, the Large Hadron Collider has been demolishing theories rather=20
than spawning new ones.  That leaves me more inclined to use the results ju=
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obtained to recalculate the speed of light thru rock (etc) along the path=20
from Switzerland to Italy than to challenge Einstein.

Supposing the speed measurements are confirmed beyond doubt, next must come=
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coherent theory explaining it, otherwise all we have is an unexplained=20
anomaly.  I imagine the theorists are off and running already.



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