CERN Suspects Loose Cable To Blame for Einstein-Defying Neutrinos
The Swedish and Italian physicists at CERN’s Gran Sasso Laboratory that made a splash with their purported faster-than-light-neutrinos suspect that their results may have been confounded by a loose cable, according to a recent article published this morning by Reuters.com. Of course, this suspicion cannot be confirmed until the test can be run again.
This latest explanation for the CERNs surprising results is not so far off from Harvard physics professor, Gary Feldman’s gut reaction to the initial announcement. He told a group of New England Science Writers members that, “The findings are likely wrong,” as detailed in my October article originally published in New England Post. Later he elaborated in a private interview, “The difficult part of the experiment is to get all of the time delays that they measure the time with. In other words they have to do a series of corrections for time of flight because they measure through electronics, through cables, and so forth,” as published in a follow-up article for New England Post in November. All of those measurements are incredibly important and one faulty cable could easily have thrown off the entire experiment.
