[ExI] More on Neutrinos

[Adrian Tymes]

2011/10/6 john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>

> The GPS unit in your car has to take General Relativity into account to
> synchronize its clock with the clocks in navigation satellites, it does this
> so well that you know your position within 5 to 10  feet.  And this piece of
> equiptment only cost a hundred dollars or so, the idea that the OPERA people
> with their massive budget tried to do the same thing but were off by more
> than 60 feet is very hard to believe, and the idea that despite checking and
> rechecking the experiment for 10 months looking for errors some of the
> smartest people on the planet forgot to consider General Relativity is even
> harder to believe than that faster than light particles exist.


"Expensive" does not mean "infallible", or even "reliable".  Indeed, just
the opposite
happens quite often: where it's expensive to do anything, that argues
against doing
things a lot - which tends to mean that experience with the practicalities
of doing
those things is not gained, which - combined with the natural tunnel vision
of those
who analyze only those narrow subfields the equipment is intended for -
leads to
errors like this.
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