[ExI] Faster than light??

[john clark]

On Sat, 9/24/11, scerir <scerir at alice.it> wrote:
"If OPERA results were taken as true, the neutrinos would
lead the gamma flux by on the order of 1 e^(10) seconds for SN1987A.
The OPERA neutrinos supposedly move 20 parts per million faster than light, supernova SN-1987A was about 168,000 light years away (the exact distance is a bit uncertain), so if the supernova neutrinos moved as fast as the OPERA neutrinos they would have arrived on Earth at least 3 years before the light or gamma rays did, but that didn't happen. Then again there is no reason to think that all neutrinos move at the same speed; all electrons and protons don't move at the same speed so why should neutrinos?

However the true explanation of all this is probably that somebody accidentally put his finger on the scale or forgot to remove the lens cap or something equally mundane, but if not WOW!  

 John K Clark






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