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

[alex brown <aesbrown77@yahoo.co.uk>]

phase velocity can, but group velocity can't...

--- On Sat, 24/9/11, brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Neutrinos going faster than speed of light?
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Date: Saturday, 24 September, 2011, 17:38

On 9/24/2011 10:58 AM, chuck britton wrote:
> 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 ;-)

More in the same naive vein: I seem to recall that there is a measurable 
entity in EM waves that
has super-luminal velocity: is it phase velocity vs group velocity?
Gamma rays have wave properties too of course!   :-)

Brian W
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