2011-09-25, 01:29 AM
modular Wrote:sounds like they consistently came up with an off-by-.00000006 secs... feels like a systematic error they didnt account for, or they wouldn't have gotten a definite number.
"We tried to find all possible explanations for this," the report's author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration told BBC News on Thursday evening.
"We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't."
"When you don't find anything, then you say 'well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this'."
In other words yes it could be a mistake but is not like they're saying that is 100% proved that the neutrino traveled faster than light, heck I would say themself don't still belive it "My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato told BBC News.