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

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

I SAID it was naive and the BRIEF reading had me still thinking of a 
vacuum chamber that had withstood the earthquakes/drifting etc.

yikes ;-)


At 11:51 AM -0400 9/24/11, David Bowman wrote:
> Regarding Chuck's wonder:
>
> >  I've looked (briefly) the paper and wonder (naively) if they
> >  could put a modulated laser beam down the flight path to get a
> >  decent length confirmation.
>
> How would propose to get a laser to propagate any photons through 
> 732 km of bedrock & soil without being scattered and absorbed along 
> the way?  Even a gamma ray laser would have a tough time of it. 
> Perhaps a VLF radio signal would propagate thorough that stuff, but 
> that would have major collimation problems (not to mention problems 
> characterizing the index of refraction well enough along the path, 
> which would include a sampling of a very wide range of stuff 
> including the air above the soil & rock).
>
> David Bowman
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