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To: Boogieman
"Well, this part of the article suggests they ARE comparing it to the speed of light in the medium:"

No, they're just talking about the distance divided by C. This wasn't a race between photons and neutrinos. It's just a matter of how fast the neutrinos were moving.

BTW, I suspect a measurement problem somewhere rather than a violation of relativity. But it would certainly be interesting if this turned out to be real.

80 posted on 09/22/2011 10:31:44 PM PDT by mlo
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To: mlo

It does make more sense if they are just dividing the distance by C. I’m guessing the journalist just didn’t realize that it would make any difference.

If it’s true, I’m not sure it really is a violation of relativity, after all, wasn’t the speed of light chosen kind of arbitrarily as the limit? I think the important thing is that there is a velocity limit, not what the limit is based on, so they would probably just have to recalculate things with the speed of neutrinos as the limit (until they discover a faster particle).


84 posted on 09/22/2011 10:40:00 PM PDT by Boogieman
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