[ExI] Faster than light??

[Dan]

Dennis May dennislmay at yahoo.com wrote:
> John Clark wrote:
>> If this experiment is valid (a literally astronomically large if) 
>> then, unlike the strange correlations seen in things like the 
>> Bell inequality experiment, neutrinos clearly COULD be 
>> used for faster than light communication, you could send a 
>> signal with them.
>  
> 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 in some
> circumstances.  Tachyons and time travel would not be
> a part of such a theory.  Standard LET provides the
> same math and numbers as Special Relativity but it
> can be adapted to supraluminal signaling - whereas
> Special Relativity cannot.
>  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory
 
And what modifications would you recommend to LET? Is your position currently that some variant of LET is the case or just that LET is better than STR?
 
Also, have you read Earman's _World Enough and Space-Time_?
 
Regards,
 
Dan
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