CERN and it's faster-than-light neutrinos

[TheKnight]

Speedy neutrino mystery likely solved, relativity safe after all | DVICE


I guess they weren't faster than light after all...

 

[Mathematician]

Pretty certain this was the case as soon as the news broken. Relativity is grounded in some very basic geometric axioms.

 

[Panda]

awww

 

[Awoon]

Back to the drawing board?

 

[Falvlun]

That makes sense," we say, and send the start time and the stop time down to our colleagues on Earth, who take one look at our numbers and freak out. "That doesn't make sense," they say. "There's no way that a neutrino could have covered the distance we're measuring down here in the time you measured up there without going faster than light!"
And they're totally, 100% correct, because the distance that the neutrinos had to travel in their reference frame is longer than the distance that the neutrinos had to travel in our reference frame, because in our reference frame, the detector was moving towards the source. In other words, the GPS clock is bang on the nose, but since the clock is in a different reference frame, you have to compensate for relativity if you're going to use it to make highly accurate measurements.

:areyoucra

As long as it makes them happy, I guess all is well.

 

[jarofthoughts]

Back to the drawing board?

We left the drawing board?`
I wasn't told... :sarcastic