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This is easy to figure out. Move the detection station to, say, half the current distance. Do the neutrinos still come out 60ns faster? Then it's a problem with
by ajays 15y ago
This is easy to figure out. Move the detection station to, say, half the current distance. Do the neutrinos still come out 60ns faster? Then it's a problem with the apparatus. Do they come out only 30ns faster? Then some of the Physics needs to be rewritten.
- perlgeek 15y agoThis sounds easy, but it's not. The neutrino detector needs to be far underground (to shield it from cosmic rays), is pretty heavy (I remember something about 60 metric tons, but it could be more), its location needs to known very precisely, and it needs the same sophisticated timing infrastructure as OPERA has. I guess it would be easier to build another neutrino emitter at a different particle accelerator, and direct the beam towards the OPERA lab (or another existing lab).