http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/09/neutrino-results-depend-on-exquisite-measurements-of-time-space.ars
On 9/24/11 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Until you get the real answer, I will offer what I thought I learned
from the expert opinion around the table yesterday.
It was done with GPS (!)
Yeah. I know. I couldn't believe it either. I kept worrying about
the shrinking and stretching of time caused by the earth's rotation, etc.
Perhaps others who were at the table can correct. The best expert we
had isn't, alas, on this list.
Nick
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Can someone tell me, in my doomed ignorance, how they timed that
too-speedy particle arriving at CERN? I know it's elementary for
those to whom it is. Mebbe Bruce Sherwood can give a briefing? I
welcome.
Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures
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