{"id":10686,"date":"2012-02-22T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/02\/22\/faster-than-light-neutrinos-ex\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:48:38","slug":"faster-than-light-neutrinos-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/faster-than-light-neutrinos-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Than Light Neutrinos Explained?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Science Insider<\/a>, there is a possible explanation for the recently observed “faster than light” neutrinos. The Neutrinos were clocked at faster-than-light speeds on their way form CRN in Switzerland to a detectors site in Italy. I had originally proposed that the neutrinos were merely very hungry but unwilling to eat Swiss food, and since they were on their way to Italy, why not go FTL?<\/p>\n

The research at first was assumed to most likely be some kind of mistake, but a Mulligan Redo Procedure<\/a> clearly demonstrated that the most obvious errors could not explain the observation, which violates The Laws of Physics.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the reason that the Neutrinos appeared to go faster than the speed of light is exactly the same reason most of these things happen:
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\nIT WAS A BAD CONNECTION <\/a><\/p>\n

According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos’ flight and an electronic card in a computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the researchers pulled out the wire, cleaned it off on their sleeve and put it back in again, the calibration changed by 60 nanoseconds.<\/p>\n

Jeesh.<\/p>\n

The neutrinos, currently serving a 10-12 lightyear sentence for violating the rules of physics, are expected to be released immediately.<\/p>\n

Update: Phil Plait has posted something on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Neutrinos, which resemble kittens, are expected to be released from Physics Prison as soon as the paperwork is finished. <\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Science Insider, there is a possible explanation for the recently observed “faster than light” neutrinos. The Neutrinos were clocked at faster-than-light speeds on their way form CRN in Switzerland to a detectors site in Italy. I had originally proposed that the neutrinos were merely very hungry but unwilling to eat Swiss food, and since … Continue reading Faster Than Light Neutrinos Explained?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Mm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}