Thursday, February 23, 2012

Einstein still rocks, speed of lightwise, that is

CERN gave the world neutrinos zipping along a whole lot faster than a speeding photon.  A lot of folks thought it might be a good idea to look at the results, the methods, and the machines before we dethroned Albert.

Uh, now CERN suggests that a couple of little problems means the neutrinos were going even faster, the same as or slower than the speed fo light.  They don't know.  They will have to re-run the test but will first have tighten up a few nuts here and a couple of bolts there.

CERN neutrino shock may be down to faulty connector

2 Comments:

JayBee said...

My son will be proud. He was so disgusted with the proposed downgrading of Einstein.

Jake said...

As the speeed of light remains a universal constant, ditto for Einstein. A loose connection, that's choice.