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er, yeah, I love how they covered their ass in the article w/ the independent verification thing.... but that leads me to ask what happened to getting independent verification prior to seeking press? Are they short on cash?
What? That's how science works... You discover something and see if someone else can reproduce your results. They published their results in a journal (most likely) and it got picked up by the press at a physics conference.
I'm not a physicist by any stretch of the imagination, but things do travel faster than light in mediums other than a vacuum. My initial thought was that the reporter was a dumbass and neglected to mention that the experiment was done in a pipe filled with a matrix or something, but he's quoting the scientists throughout the article, so I don't think that's the case.
I'm really interested to see how this goes over in the physics community. Those fuckers are brutal when it comes to conferences, talks, and poster sessions. Biochemists will wait till you're done talking before they rip you apart with questions doubting your work, physicists yell at you while you're explaining your derivations.
I mean it could be that the results are dead on, and we'll have to modify our definitions on Relativity. That's the awesomeness of science. It's not a static thing. The current model might need to be modified such that further evidence might show that these neutrinos are taking shortcuts through dimensions in space that cause them to travel faster than light. Who knows? The first step they're taking is to confirm their results by a secondary source.
