It's probably too early to make a definite conclusion that Einstein was wrong. Other scientists, most likely at the Fermi Lab in the USA, will have to verify CERN's experiments.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > For those interested in these sciency things, it looks as if the guy > whose leg I once peed on (as an infant, mind you, and I have no memory > of the event) may have been w...w...wrong about the speed of light. If > my grandfather's story of me having some loss of bladder control while > being bounced on his knee was correct, it was probably contact with my > unevolved pee that eventually produced the mistake. > Was Einstein Wrong? New Neutrino Experiment Says Yes It turns > out Einstein, generally accepted to be a by-word for genius, was wrong > about the speed of light, according to a new experiment. > The Telegraph reports that the accepted speed of light can be broken > <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8898436/Re-run-of-exper\ > iment-that-contradicts-Einstein-yields-same-result.html> . A second > experiment to double check the results of an early one on light speed > has come to the same conclusion. > > European scientists issued a scientific "walk-off" of sorts to US > counterparts, saying they had measured neutrinos travelling at six > kilometres per second faster than Einstein's velocity of light. In > short, they were undoing the gold standard set down by everyone's > favourite genius. > > The first experiment was carried out between the European Centre for > Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and a laboratory at Gran Sasso in > Italy. > > At the time, the scientists agreed that it could be an error, as even > the tiniest of shifts in the earth between the two measuring points > could have changed the results. > > In October, responding to criticism that they had been tricked by a > statistical quirk, the team decided they would carry out a second series > of experiments. > > The Telegraph reports that in the second experiment, the scientists > altered the structure of the proton beam. > > US scientists have been critical of this saying: "OPERA's observation > of a similar time delay with a different beam structure only indicates > no problem with the batch structure of the beam, it doesn't help to > understand whether there is a systematic delay which has been > overlooked," said Jenny Thomas, co-spokesman for the Chicago-based lab's > own neutrino experiment, MINOS. > > In her blog on the Huffington Post, Anais Rassat, Astrophysicist and > Science Communicator wrote: "Two main issues are that to measure a > speed, you need to measure the precise distance travelled > <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/anais-rassat/scientists-are-wary-of-su_\ > b_978712.html> , as well as the exact time it took to travel that > distance. This is no easy feat, and this is where the largest possible > blunders can lie." > > "And though we all want to witness a scientific revolution, it is > overly optimistic to start re-writing physics textbooks," she said. > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/18/was-einstein-wrong-speed-of-l\ > ight_n_1101014.html?ref=uk > <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/18/was-einstein-wrong-speed-of-\ > light_n_1101014.html?ref=uk> >
