Neutrinos Travel No Faster Than Light, Says ICARUS 112
ananyo writes "Neutrinos obey nature's speed limit, according to new results from an Italian experiment. The finding, posted to the preprint server arXiv.org, contradicts a rival claim from the OPERA experiment that neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of light. ICARUS, located just a few meters from OPERA, clocked neutrinos traveling at the speed of light, and no faster, after monitoring a beam of neutrinos sent from CERN in late October and early November of last year. The neutrinos were packed into pulses just four nanoseconds long. That meant the timing could be measured far more accurately than the original OPERA measurement, which used ten microsecond pulses. The new findings are yet another blow to OPERA's results. Researchers there had announced possible timing problems with their original measurements. For many, this will pretty much be case closed."
Logged In Users Post No Faster Than AC, Says ANUS (Score:2, Funny)
The new findings are yet another blow to OPERA's results. Researchers there had announced possible timing problems with their original web browser. The latest benchmarks show it has abysmal performance and lacks the scalability and user friendliness of Internet Explorer 9. For many, this will pretty much be case closed.
Re:Didn't they already find an equipment error? (Score:2, Funny)
Well, if you're going to make the claim that this was "the press working the way we all learned to expect" I would claim that the OP, as an AC ignoring all facts, reading no stories, jumping to a bunch of conclusions based solely on headlines and then using those conclusions to prove to the rest of us that he is the smartest man alive, is "Slashdot working the way we all learned to expect".
Re:Didn't they already find an equipment error? (Score:1, Funny)
Sorry, bet we have a consensus of the press who have reported that the neutrino travels faster than light. Since this is all that was necessary for Global Warming, it should be good enough for Faster Than Light speeds. Quit denying the facts, and start developing FTL vehicles.
Re:Gravity defiant? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"Another blow?" (Score:5, Funny)
somewhere, in a basement, a lonely teenager is writing in his blog: "just like in 1947, the truth got out, but now the coverup begins".