An interesting article in today's NY Times on a startling finding by
physicists at CERN. One theorist at CERN is quoted as saying:
If it is true, then we truly haven't understood anything about anything.
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/23speed.html?_r=1nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha3
..said Mike Palij (yada, yada):
Bem certainly thinks so.
About to be published:
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 Oct;101(4):716-9.
Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data?
Bem DJ, Utts J, Johnson WO.
Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, and van der Maas (2011) argued that
psychologists
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And then again ... it is not at all obvious that some sub-atomic particle
traveling 90 km a few nanoseconds faster than expected would help at all in
seeing into the future seconds and minutes ahead, or hours, days, and years
in lay cases. Of course, that won't stop some people from
Amidst the headlines, a cool look at the story:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/neutrinos-travel-faster-than-lig.html?ref=hp
And a more informative article here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-light-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/
And a