Thread: It is always darkest before dawn - for neutrinos?

Originally Posted by LinacMan

Since you're talking about it could you be a nerd?

I prefer the formal term: nerdlinger.

All I can say is one experiment does not a theory prove. Replication, replication, replication. Even the Physicists need to obey the scientific method and the laws of sampling and probability. Exorbitant cost is no excuse for avoiding your responsibilities to Mankind!

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I prefer the formal term: nerdlinger.

All I can say is one experiment does not a theory prove. Replication, replication, replication. Even the Physicists need to obey the scientific method and the laws of sampling and probability. Exorbitant cost is no excuse for avoiding your responsibilities to Mankind!

James.

Apparently, the wording of the findings was very careful to avoid sensationalism or early conclusions.
It would be interesting if true.

Lucky for us, we are talking about experiments which can be repeated. Or Not.
Keeping an open mind does not really come into the picture.

Originally Posted by LinacMan

Since you're talking about it could you be a nerd?

It's possible

Bruno, it seems to me the team involved was just reporting what they did and what they found, as is usually the case with stuff like this. So then people like myself read it, take it for what it's worth, and speculate and pound fists on desks with fellow gorm-laden nerdlingers until more data comes along to support or cast doubt on the findings.

If the neutrinos would slow down long enough to explain what they were doing breaking the cosmic speed limit, maybe we could gain some firsthand insight

On the news here they reported that for the first time, particles had gone FTL.

First of all, stuff goes FTL all the time. She should have specified FTL in vacuum.
Second, even if somehow the speed of light in a vacuum was surpassed, I doubt it would be the first time in the history of the universe for such an event to occurr.



That said, over the previous months, physics news has begun to appear in mainstream news channels. Even though the reporting is usually inaccurate, it is nice to see that the mainstream is picking it up again.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

...and pound fists on desks with fellow gorm-laden nerdlingers ...

I sub-majored in fist pounding.

But who cares anyway? Will it make my iPad go faster?

James.

Originally Posted by Bruno

even if somehow the speed of light in a vacuum was surpassed, I doubt it would be the first time in the history of the universe for such an event to occurr.

It wouldn't. It happens in cheap vacuums all the time

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Will it make my iPad go faster?

Just make sure you don't get the lite version, which only goes as fast as lite

Sooo..... what if I, like, put my iPad in the vacuum cleaner...?

James.

that would suck, since nature would abhor it

alright that is my last lame one for tonight I promise.

Dysons suck harder than normal vacuums. Does nature hate Dyson more than electrolux?

I never promised nothing about laying off the lame ones. But I will stop derailing this intellectually stimulating thread now, since I don't have a clue what it is about anyway...

James.