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 cartoon: http://xkcd.com/955/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [email protected] http://www.esterson.org -------------------------------------------- [tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-) Mike Palij Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:09:16 -0700 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=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha3 As noted in the article, it might be premature to throw Einstein under the bus. Then again..... -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12913 or send a blank email to leave-12913-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
