Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong.
Physics
Those faster-than-light neutrinos: When results don’t match theory, the equipment is bust, or the staff are incompetent, or …
“The scrutiny of the apparatus only occurred with divergent results, never with consistent results.”
Which could fall sooner: Relativity or Darwinism?
Darwin demands a higher loyalty than physics; he costs you your integrity.
Yet more reactions to the “faster than light” neutrinos: Must be “subtle error”
Physicists may learn a lot from the error, if that is what it turns out to be.
More reactions to the “faster than light” neutrinos: Physicist will eat boxer shorts on live TV if it’s true
With lots of Worcestershire?
New Scientist’s response to faster than light neutrinos: Claim bolstered
In “Faster-than-light neutrino claim bolstered” (New Scientist, September 23, 2011), Lisa Grossman notes, Representatives from the OPERA collaboration spoke in a seminar at CERN today, supporting their astonishing claim that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light. The result is conceptually simple: neutrinos travelling from a particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland arrived Read More…
Information as real and irreducible to physics? – David Deutsch’s surprising response
“Remarkable and worth watching” says a friend of Uncommon Descent.
Scientific American’s blog Basic Space on the possible faster-than-light neutrinos …
Kelly Oakes here (September 23, 2011): While scepticism is necessary in situations like this — I’m sure we’re all aware of the famous Carl Sagan quote, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” — progress is not made by shouting down anything that does not fit within the current status quo. You never know, perhaps this result Read More…
Gran Sasso lab threatens to upend a century of Einstein physics?
” reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.”
BREAKING: Possible Neutrinos moving at superluminal speeds at CERN!
When I was a kid and was bored in Chem classes I would occasionally daydream of a messenger arriving at the classroom door to tell the late, great, Fr Farrell of a scientific breakthrough. Of course, in later years, I always assumed that it would be years before a breakthrough would filter down to High Read More…
Nobel physicist resigns, all right … from a physics society that was morphing into a political pressure group
No scientific reason is cited for the change in the nature of the institution.
None was possible.
Landlady: Higgs boson, pay up by the end of the month or get out!
Physics is still a science if it’s still possible to imagine something that is not supported by evidence.
Physics a “hastily erected shanty-town,” not “a shimmering cathedral” – says Princeton physicist
Physics a “hastily erected shanty-town,” not “a shimmering cathedral” – says Princeton physicist
Infinite Probabilistic Resources Makes ID Detection Easier (Part 2)
Previously [1], I argued that not only may a universe with infinite probabilistic resources undermine ID, it will definitely undermines science. Science operates by fitting models to data using statistical hypothesis testing with an assumption of regularity between the past, present, and future. However, given the possible permutations of physical histories, the majority are mostly Read More…
The Effect of Infinite Probabilistic Resources on ID and Science (Part 1)
If the infinite universe critique holds, then not only does it undermine ID, but every huckster, conman, and scam artist will have a field day.