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General => Science => Topic started by: Pharaoh Cat on December 30, 2011, 06:42:57 PM

Title: Are superluminal neutrinos possible?
Post by: Pharaoh Cat on December 30, 2011, 06:42:57 PM
ScienceDaily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111223114121.htm

If I'm reading this article correctly, physicists are claiming the experiment couldn't have yielded its apparent results because according to theory it couldn't have.

Am I reading this article correctly?

If so, then my question would be - Don't experiments trump theory?
Title: Re: Are superluminal neutrinos possible?
Post by: Tank on December 30, 2011, 07:59:06 PM
I think the article is saying that the accelerator simple could not have pumped in enough energy to do what is it saying it is doing. Now experimentation does trump theory but the problem is that we only have one experiment yielding this result and it's going to take a lot of time and effort to replicate it.
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