Amateurs.
Posted on 02/23/2012 11:33:26 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Never argue with Albert. He’ll just make you look foolish.
Amateurs.
Obviously they were going downhill.....
They were so overexcited about what they thought was a novel discovery, that they didn’t double check their instruments and measurements. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an inexperienced grad student doing the experiment.
Scientists get incorrect results all the time, which is why we stress repetition. It’s wonderful to have a result that would change the current paradigm—but if it can’t be replicated, it’s worthless.
I hope those scientists at CERN learned their lesson!
“60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos’ flight and an electronic card in a computer. “
Fiber optic? As in a cable that transmits data using light?
What could go wrong?
Pygmies trying to disprove a real scienctist.
Title: “Relativity: The Special and General Theory”
Author: Albert Einstein
Written: 1916 (this revised edition: 1924)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30155/30155-h/30155-h.htm
After spending umpteen-billion dollars to build the LHC, you’d think they’d use better cables than one can pickup at Radio Shack.
My Buick is pretty fast so I challenged light to a drag race. We had to have the race in a vacuum, so the engine wouldn’t run. Stinkin’ cheatin’ light. We was racin’ for pinks. Now I’m walkin’.
yitbos
How is trying to learn about and understand how things work playing God?
I doubt that God intended us to remain ignorant, or He wouldn’t have given us the capacity to learn and explore.
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