I've been looking around at the CERN website and cannot find any mention of the experiment... so far.
Can you friend provide us with the Abstract of the publication where he claims it specifically says the neutrino beam traveled thru the atmosphere? The Yahoo.com article from your link says nothing about the atmosphere, or what the neutrino beam traveled thru, whereas the article at physorg.com specifically says the beam traveled 'underground'. This makes sense since the particle accelerator where the beam originates is very likely below ground, and the neutrino detector almost surely MUST be underground to reduce stray neutrinos as much as possible. All major neutrino detector experiments that I've read about place the detector WAY underground... one used an old mine-shaft. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Hollins Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:CERN clocks subatomic particles traveling faster than light http://news.yahoo.com/cern-claims-faster-light-particle-measured-180644818.h tml I dont have the good link, but a friend of mine with access to several journals verified, faster than light IN ATMOSPHERE (which is where they beamed the neutrinos. through the atmosphere). Its mildly interesting (neutrinos dont interact with the atmosphere) but it ISNT big news, some reporter who thought they knew what they were talking about heard about it and blew it out of proportion. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 11-09-22 06:32 PM, Alexander Hollins wrote: > > Note, Faster in ATMOSPHERE than light travels in ATMOSPHERE. not faster than > C. > > Say what?? But that would be, like, totally ordinary -- electrons do it all > the time. That's where Cherenkov radiation comes from. > > It's also not what the article says. It says: > > "But neutrinos have now been observed smashing past this cosmic speed > barrier of 186,282 miles per second" > > That is very clear. The only "cosmic speed barrier" is C itself. > Furthermore, the speed of light in air is about 186,226 miles per second, > not 186,282 miles per second, which is the speed value the article says the > neutrinos exceeded. > > So, either the article is wrong, or the observation really was of neutrinos > going faster than C. > > >
