"Almost trivial"? You're vastly exaggerating. I'm pretty sure most physics graduates would get problems of special relativity as applied to rotating (i.e. accel

"Almost trivial"? You're vastly exaggerating. I'm pretty sure most physics graduates would get problems of special relativity as applied to rotating (i.e. accelerating) systems completely wrong, as it's usually just not taught. Yep, someone doing the experiment should have ideally spotted it, but it's already an extremely complex system, so I'm not surprised they didn't.