Comment Regarding Evidence of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

Dec 13, 2011 15:02

"Jim Al-Khalili, a professor of physics at the University of Surrey who pledged to eat his boxer shorts live on television if the Opera result was proved true, was similarly sceptical that neutrinos can move faster than light."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/21/faster-than-light-neutrinos-doubts

Experimentally, it's been confirmed upon repetition with the same equipment but not with different equipment. Theoretically, it doesn't fit any known predictions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/science/space/neutrino-finding-is-confirmed-in-second-experiment-opera-scientists-say.html

(Yes, this is nearly a month old, but I only grab science news once in a while.)
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