[ExI] Faster than light??

[Giulio Prisco]

I just watched the webcast. It is a complex experimental setup
involving quite accurate distance (over hundreds of km) and time
measurements. They have described their error analysis in detail but I
would not rule out that there may be other errors.

I will not be surprised if this turns out to be a false alarm, but
paradigm shifts triggered by new experimental results have occurred in
physics before.

2011/9/23 john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>
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> On Fri, 9/23/11, Dennis May <dennislmay at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "I would not be too concerned about any Earth shattering
> consequences if it were found that neutrinos were found
> to travel slightly faster than the speed of light - or other
> means of signaling faster than light were discovered.
> It would only mean that a variation of Lorentz Ether
> Theory would replace Special Relativity"
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> If Special Relativity is untrue then General relativity certainly is, I'd say that was pretty damn Earth shattering.
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> "Tachyons and time travel would not be a part of such a theory."
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> Maybe maybe not, its far too early to make any dogmatic assertions, but I will say that I'd be very sirprise if the luminiferous Ether made a comeback after more than a century.
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> And it will probably all turn out to be a mistake, but if not all bets are off.
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>  John K Clark
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