<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto">Dennis May <A href="mailto:dennislmay@yahoo.com">dennislmay@yahoo.com</A> wrote:<BR>> John Clark wrote:<BR>>> If this experiment is valid (a literally astronomically large if) <BR>>> then, unlike the strange correlations seen in things like the <BR>>> Bell inequality experiment, neutrinos clearly COULD be <BR>>> used for faster than light communication, you could send a <BR>>> signal with them.<BR>> <BR>> I would not be too concerned about any Earth shattering<BR>> consequences if it were found that neutrinos were found<BR>> to travel slightly faster than the speed of light - or other<BR>> means of signaling faster than light were discovered.<BR>> <BR>> It would only mean that a variation of Lorentz Ether<BR>> Theory would replace Special
Relativity in some<BR>> circumstances. Tachyons and time travel would not be<BR>> a part of such a theory. Standard LET provides the<BR>> same math and numbers as Special Relativity but it<BR>> can be adapted to supraluminal signaling - whereas<BR>> Special Relativity cannot.<BR>> <BR>> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory</A></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"> </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">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?<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"> </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Also, have you read Earman's _World Enough and Space-Time_?</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"> </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Regards,</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"> </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</div><WBR><WBR><WBR></div></body></html>