Comment on Particles break light-speed limit?

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:41:51 GMT

Having read the preprint, about the only observation is that I think you’re overestimating the fraud hypothesis.

There’s almost a whole page of authors, the preprint describes only the measurement, and finishes with something like (paraphrasing) “we’re pretty sure of seeing the effect, but given the consequences of this being new physics we think more checking is needed, and since we’re stumped trying to find other sources of error, we publish this to give others a try too; we deliberately don’t discuss any possible theoretical implications.”

At the very least, this is the work of the aggregate group trying very hard to “do it right”; I guess there could still be one rogue data manipulator, but I would give much less than 1 in 20 that nobody else in the group noticed anything funny.

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