On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > 20m of extra fiber sounds *much* more plausible. > > Inventing an excuse about a loose connector to cover up the mistake > sounds even more plausible. > > You really don't want to defend your phd dissertation, being known > as the idiot who made a fool of both CERN and SanGrasso in one go.
PHK come on, you can do much better than this :) I am sorry guys. I really owe this list a lot of knowledge and I try to give back every time I have an opportunity, but I will not be able to react to all suppositions in real-time. Also I am not even a completely reliable source of information myself because these things have been found in OPERA, and I only know of them indirectly. I only have two points: - Delays in fiber connections can be modified because of changes in input power (due to improper screwing), which turn into delay changes via the input capacitance of the photo-diode. This only has an effect on the final result if the calibration was conducted with the proper screwing (sure) and the experiment with improper screwing (not sure). - OPERA and CERN have followed the scientific method in an exemplary way all throughout the process. The published information is the result of a leak and has two problems: a) it's incomplete and b) it's too soon to publish anything meaningful, it would have been much better to study the effects of the two issues found, quantify them and then go public. Maybe there is virtually no effect on the final result, who knows. So please stay tuned for proper information. That's all I can say for now. Cheers, Javier _______________________________________________ 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.
