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This result is from a legitimate experimental group. It's much more likely to be experimental error than new physics, though: previous observations of neutrinos
by gammarator 15y ago
This result is from a legitimate experimental group. It's much more likely to be experimental error than new physics, though: previous observations of neutrinos coincident with the light emitted by supernova 1987a (much, much farther away) indicate that neutrinos travel at light speed to 1 part in 10^8 [1,2]
[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ARA%26A..27..629A http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ARA%26A..27..629A
[2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-light-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/fa...
Also, https://www.xkcd.com/955/ https://www.xkcd.com/955/