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| Second experiment confirms faster-than-light particles |
| 2011-11-18 |
| A second experiment at the European facility that reported subatomic particles zooming faster than the speed of light — stunning the world of physics — has reached the same result, scientists said late Thursday. The “positive outcome of the [second] test makes us more confident in the result,” said Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, in a statement released late Thursday. Ferroni is one of 160 physicists involved in the international collaboration known as OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion Tracking Apparatus) that performed the experiment. While the second experiment “has made an important test of consistency of its result,” Ferroni added, “a final word can only be said by analogous measurements performed elsewhere in the world.” That is, more tests are needed, and on other experimental setups. There is still a large crowd of skeptical physicists who suspect that the original measurement done in September was an error. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #4 *groan*. You saved me the trouble of sending you to groom, dear Angoper Smith4384. Sleep well! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-11-18 23:15 |
| #3 Gee, is CERN conducting/choreographing this OPERA? .01% of Libtards might know it's their aria of expertise... -and now; to bed. |
| Posted by: Angoper Smith4384 2011-11-18 22:35 |
| #2 More funding, I say! With Global cooling and Y2K off the table, and global warming failing, we have to have some new hole to pour money into! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-11-18 19:51 |
| #1 100 years of physics right out the window. My suspicions are confirmed. When they fired up the LHC it created a worm hole to an alternate universe where socialism is acceptable and logic is counter to good order. Now these goings on in life today make sense. |
| Posted by: Lowspark 2011-11-18 19:25 |