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Maxila
8th June 2012 - 06:44 PM
Saw this CERN press release today and thought it worthwhile to post, because there have been a number of people who believed the speed limit of light had been disproved.

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleas...1/PR19.11E.html

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Quote from the link: "The four, Borexino, ICARUS, LVD and OPERA all measure a neutrino time of flight consistent with the speed of light. This is at odds with a measurement that the OPERA collaboration put up for scrutiny last September, indicating that the original OPERA measurement can be attributed to a faulty element of the experiment’s fibre optic timing system."


Maxila
Mekigal
8th June 2012 - 08:04 PM
QUOTE (Maxila+Jun 8 2012, 06:44 PM)
Saw this CERN press release today and thought it worthwhile to post, because there have been a number of people who believed the speed limit of light had been disproved.

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleas...1/PR19.11E.html



Maxila

So going faster than the speed of light is out right ? Only as fast ? Am I reading that right ?
Maxila
8th June 2012 - 08:38 PM
QUOTE (Mekigal+Jun 8 2012, 03:04 PM)
So going faster than the speed of light is out right ? Only as fast ? Am I reading that right ?

It was only a press release however; I think it's safe to assume this quote, "all measure a neutrino time of flight consistent with the speed of light", to mean the experiment was consistent current theories. In other words the neutrinos did not achieve light speed however close they may have come to it.

Maxila
Albers
8th June 2012 - 10:00 PM
Remember, when going 49,000 miles per second, that GREEN is really RED!!!!!
Lady Elizabeth
9th June 2012 - 12:30 AM
QUOTE (Albers+Jun 8 2012, 10:00 PM)
Remember, when going 49,000 miles per second, that GREEN is really RED!!!!!

Red?, more of an orange I'd say ..... and that's only when looking in direction of forwards motion. Turn your head 180° and anything green is really rather indigo-ish.

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