[ExI] More on Neutrinos

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 20:37:57 UTC 2011


2011/10/6 john clark wrote:
> 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.  They say the error is only 20 centimeters and that's much easier
> to believe than 18 meters.
>
> OPERA may well have a subtle error in it somewhere but I'll bet money its not an error they could have
> found when their shift was over and they walked to their car in the parking lot right next to the lab
>
>

You didn't read the paper, did you?
Perhaps you should read it first, then you might rethink your sarcasm.
<http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/1109.6160v2>

The scientists trying to find the flaw in the experiment are probably
equally as capable as the OPERA scientists.


BillK




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