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I was looking forward to time travel.
BUT hundreds of the smartest humans on the planet have been trying to
figure out why those Neutrinos appeared to be traveling faster-than-light,
and guess what? Someone seems to have figured it out.
> Here < is his paper.
Article:
http://www.technologyreview.com
The OPERA team overlooks [relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS
satellites] because it thinks of the clocks as on the ground not in
orbit.
How big is this effect? Van Elburg calculates that it should cause the
neutrinos to arrive 32 nanoseconds early. But this must be doubled
because the same error occurs at each end of the experiment. So the total
correction is 64 nanoseconds, almost exactly what the OPERA team
observes.
Ah.
I was interested to find what would happen with this as well.
Thanks for the heads up Tensor.
"Never tell me the odds." Han Solo
Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) isn't convinced that this is the answer.
We'll have to wait a bit longer for the truth, I think.
Greg