Re: [Phys-l] Neutrinos going faster than speed of light?

["Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

One advantage of getting old is that you can approach these kinds of news items with a certain amount of equanimity.  Every three to for years one gets such announcements about a new measurement invalidating relativity in some fashion of the other.  I recall as a young graduate student, working on my GR dissertation, and there was a grand announcement about new measurements of the mass quadrupole moment of the sun; coming from  a reputable research group, as I recall.  The measurements, if true, would render Einstein's version of GR inadequate.  As we were walking over to a talk at a conference that was coincidentally being held on campus, I was chatting with one of the greybeards in the department.  Who basically calmed the young eager student down with a "wait and see" attitude and a message much like this one.

So I say let's wait and see.  If true very interesting; but if I had to bet money on it . . .

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Joel Rauber, Ph.D 
Professor and Head of Physics
Department of Physics
South Dakota State University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
> bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Savinainen Antti
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 5:03 AM
> To: phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> Subject: [Phys-l] Neutrinos going faster than speed of light?
>
> Hi all,
>
> here is interesting news on experimental result regarding speed of
> neutrinos:
>
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484>
>
> <http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/neutrinos-travel-faster-
> than-lig.html>
>
> It remains to be seen whether or not there is real need for extending
> relativity theory to account for the observation described above. My
> hunch is that this will not be the case...but it is nevertheless
> intriguing to see what comes out of this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antti
>
>
> Antti Savinainen, Ph.D., B.Ed.
> Adjunct Professor (University of Jyväskylä)
> Senior Lecturer in Physics and Mathematics
> Kuopion Lyseo High School
> Finland
> E-mail: <antti.savinainen@kuopio.fi>
> Website: <http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/savant/>
>
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