Turns out Albert was probably right.

[Sean]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17139635

What might have been the biggest physics story of the past century may instead be down to a faulty connection.

In September 2011, the Opera experiment reported it had seen particles called neutrinos evidently travelling faster than the speed of light.

The team has now found two problems that may have affected their test in opposing ways: one in its timing gear and one in an optical fibre connection

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

My own experiments in the basement with a book of matches confirms this.

 

[John Doe]

You should know better than that.

 

[Wok]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17139635

What might have been the biggest physics story of the past century may instead be down to a faulty connection.

In September 2011, the Opera experiment reported it had seen particles called neutrinos evidently travelling faster than the speed of light.

The team has now found two problems that may have affected their test in opposing ways: one in its timing gear and one in an optical fibre connection

Yeah, the Minkowsky metric is the Mikowsky metric, and the result of -c dt will be imaginary if v > c.

 

[Sean]

Yeah, the Minkowsky metric is the Mikowsky metric, and the result of -c dt will be imaginary of v > c.

Someone's been reading general relativity.

 

[Wok]

Someone's been reading general relativity.

It is special relativity, because the Minkowsky metric did not take the fundamental tensor G. So, the assumption is the metric has a Kroneker delta as G is not curved.

 

[Sean]

It is special relativity, because the Minkowsky metric did not take the fundamental tensor G. So, the assumption is the metric has a Kroneker delta as G is not curved.

My mistake, it's been a long time since I did any reading in either of them.

 

[phrodeau]

Hope they get everything connected right when they "discover" the Higgs boson.

 

[RobDownSouth]

NERDS!
http://www.nightmare-fuel.com/media/donald-sutherland.gif

 

[NorthernCanuck]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17139635

What might have been the biggest physics story of the past century may instead be down to a faulty connection.

In September 2011, the Opera experiment reported it had seen particles called neutrinos evidently travelling faster than the speed of light.

The team has now found two problems that may have affected their test in opposing ways: one in its timing gear and one in an optical fibre connection

Yet, you're still nothing but a drunken truck driver.

 

[girlsmiley]

Yet, you're still nothing but a drunken truck driver.

What's wrong with driving trucks?

 

[John Doe]

My mistake, it's been a long time since I did any reading in either of them.

The title of this thread made that embarrassingly obvious.

 

[NorthernCanuck]

What's wrong with driving trucks?

Not much, I just think it's funny when Sean acts smart.

 

[CHNOPS]

I'm not so sure they had it wrong. Apparently their press conference about this is scheduled for the year 1846.

 

[John Doe]

I'm not so sure they had it wrong. Apparently their press conference about this is scheduled for the year 1846.

You will be lucky if five people get that joke.

 

[Sean]

You will be lucky if five people get that joke.

Nah, there was a similar "bloke walks into a bar" joke weeks ago. Or next month, I forget.

 

[KRCummings]

I didn't know Albert was into physics. Never saw him doing any experiments. He mostly just hung around the junkyard and played in that really bad band.

 

[thør]

Hope they get everything connected right when they "discover" the Higgs boson.

http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/50000/2000/500/152552/152552.strip.gif

 

[Sean Renaud]

Is it wrong that I'm kind of annoyed that the world class scientists didn't make sure all the cords were connected? That's the kinda shit I expect from my grandmother.

 

[butters]

60 billionths of a second faster?

is that even worth measuring? i dunno. *shakes head* boys and their toys. oops, sorry, scientists and their 'equipment'.

 

[KRCummings]

60 billionths of a second faster?

is that even worth measuring? i dunno. *shakes head* boys and their toys. oops, sorry, scientists and their 'equipment'.

Any amount of time faster than light is significant. It changes everything. Your entire post is ignorant and insulting to all the female physicists in the world.

 

[Saint Peter]

FermiLab had an experiment show the same trend. Those results could have been explained by the margin of error, but it did raise some eyebrows.

FermiLab is going to run the experiment independently. They will get the wires tight.

 

[KRCummings]

FermiLab had an experiment show the same trend. Those results could have been explained by the margin of error, but it did raise some eyebrows.

FermiLab is going to run the experiment independently. They will get the wires tight.

The connection thing is funny. I'm sure it's not as bad as it sounds but still one of those things you might want to double check. Just goes to show that even Sheldon can have a bad day.

 

[JohnnySavage]

FermiLab had an experiment show the same trend. Those results could have been explained by the margin of error, but it did raise some eyebrows.

FermiLab is going to run the experiment independently. They will get the wires tight.

Did you see KRC putting the hammer down up there?

 

[KRCummings]

Did you see KRC putting the hammer down up there?

Shouldn't you be getting ready for work? Slacker.