A group of Italian scientists have questioned those faster-than-light neutrino test results, claiming that anything moving that fast should lose energy — but that’s not what the original tests showed.
Claiming that they “refute a superluminal interpretation” the team from the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy say the original test results don’t support the light speed breaking claims, because no energy was lost by the neutrinos in the original 2010 test.
All this despite the original faster-then-light claims recently being retested and once again stated as a fact by the original testers. [The Register via Gizmodo UK]
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light487
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 8:39 AMHaters are gonna hate.
Honestly, when we are talking about stuff that have a lot of unknowns, who is to say that the amount of energy lost is simply not perceivable? And the very fact that something is moving beyond the light speed barrier may be creating new and previously unimagined effects that don’t make sense in the current scientific framework..
I want to believe.. but I am no fool.. but let’s wait and see rather than attempt to debunk something that is within the next frontier of science. It’s good that they can question the results, keeps people honest.. but they need to reproduce the test themselves and disprove it.. not just offer obvious and possibly incorrect arguements without their own evidence.
Antipodean
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:00 AMGotta agree there, maybe once something goes past the light speed barrier some other unknown force takes over?
Lillee
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:43 AMThat image is so fake, no nuclear scientists look that hot…
JonBOY
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:42 AM…given their age (or lack their of) they’d be lucky to be Honours students, let alone fully fledged nuclear physicists with PhDs.
Scott
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:47 AMAfter working in a few universities for over a decade, I’ll tell you now – yes, there are nuclear scientists that hot. Nothing more attractive or intimidating than discovering that some beautiful bombshell is doing her masters in physics.
JonBOY
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:39 AMDamn Italians, just accept faster-than-light speed already and build a bloody warp drive.
jeremy
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 6:08 PMnope they are right, it is odd that neutrinos can even travel at/very very close to the speed of light – they are supposed to have rest mass, which under general relativity means they should increasingly loose kinetic energy via radiation as velocity approaches C. There be dragons …
Chris
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 6:43 PMI wanna believe OH I wanna believe..is there any chance..erm picture this. Light is a train and on the front of that train is me ( neutrino ), just before my train hits it’s destination I’m flung forward, now in theory I have arrived before the train, but I cannot travel faster than the train, catch my drift.
Joel Bruce
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 3:28 AMIf you were on the front of the train the whole way, and then were suddenly able to move fast enough to beat it to the destination by more than your physical dimensions, you are clearly and logically moving faster than the train
Chris
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 10:27 PMI think what I’m really saying is, if I stick my chest out I beat the train to the finish line.