
24-09-2011, 07:22 AM
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Unpredictable
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Australia
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A call for independent verification was a common refrain among physicists reacting to the news. That will happen in two steps, they said.
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The next step will be to duplicate the neutrino experiment in another laboratory, which could happen within months.
But there are only two facilities currently operational capable of carrying out such tests, said Weber.
One is at the national Fermilab outside Chicago, where the 2007 effort -- part of a project called MINOS -- hinted at faster-than-light speeds but fell within the margin of error.
"We are already thinking about upgrades that would allow us to make competitive measurements," said Weber.
The other site is in Japan, where an international team of physicists last year detected neutrinos that had travelled the width of Honshu island to the giant Super-Kamiokande underground detector.
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