Opera Result Affected By Instrumental Error !
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 17:50
in Physics & Chemistry
This just in: the controversial Opera result on superluminal neutrinos is affected by a previously unaccounted for experimental error, which completely overturns the conclusions.This is explained in detail here. Note that the source is James Gillies, head of Communications at CERN, and thus hardly a "unofficial leak". In fact, tomorrow there will be a CERN press release on the matter.The relevant quote is the following: read more