On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Alberto di Bene <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/20/2011 8:17 PM, Robin Kimberley wrote: >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15791236 >> >> Thoughts anyone? > Theoreticians are inclined to think in terms of a fourth spatial dimension. > This is the current line of thought at CERN. In this perspective, the > neutrinos > would have traveled for a distance shorter than thought, taking a shortcut > via the fourth dimension, so to speak...
If there is no experimental error that has to be the answer. These other dimension must be very tiny if they have not been detected. The only way for the photons to take a longer path is if they oscillate in these higher dimensions. And neutrinos simply oscillate differently, maybe a lower frequency. so they both take corkscrew-like paths through higher dimensional space the difference is how tightly the screw is wind up. I think when the answer comes out t will be like everything else, so simple we all will say "it's obvious" There is nothing exotic or hard to understand about a fourth spacial dimension. In our "old" 3d space we specify location with three numbers, x,y and z. With 4D we just need one more w,x,y and z. But if all this is correct the size of the entire universe in the "w" direction is much smaller then a proton, so we just never noticed. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
