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Old 23-09-2011, 07:12 AM
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Looks like they're taking it seriously … Fermilab is ramping up to see if they can replicate the readings and they're requesting T2K (Japan) to step up to the mark, also … a call to arms !

Caution is warranted, I would think especially in the light of:
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The Chicago team had similar faster-than-light results in 2007, but those came with a giant margin of error that undercut its scientific significance.

{Min you, with this news however, back at CERN ...} Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference statistically significant.
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He cautioned that the neutrino researchers would have to explain why similar results weren't detected before.
The plot thickens !

Fermilab is in need of some publicity and T2K are still cleaning up after the earthquake damage.

We'll see, I guess. This kind of thing has happened before.

In a way, this reminds me of the 'unaccountable noise' measured in the GEO600 gravity wave detector in Germany. A scientist called Hogan has been attempting to explain the noise in terms of the Holographic Principle. We covered this in this thread).

It'll be interesting to watch the reactions to this within scientific community, though !

Cheers
PS: The team reporting this are no slouches in Particle Physics, either. It is a big team and they have published many peer-reviewed papers. Accusations centred around the credibility of the team, would seem unfounded.
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