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Old 25-09-2011, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
Looks like high energy neutrinos (produced in CERN) are experiencing Lorentz-violating oscillations and can travel FTL.

From wiki article :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrin...nova_neutrinos
Yep, I agree … using classifying terms like neutrino and tachyons, may also be a misleading part in all of this.

Figure 13 of the paper shows that the higher energy particles are around 60ns FTL, and the lower ones are around 50 ns FTL, so, the faster particles exhibit more energy. The possibility of measurement inaccuracies (etc) aside, at the very least, this shows that what they've measured is behaving closer to what we relate to as 'neutrinos' than 'tachyons', when considered from a two parameter perspective. (Which should carry more weight than a single parameter view).

Fascinating stuff. At the end of the day, there's only one thing which makes sense .. independent tests and subsequent verification !

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