[link] Faster than light neutrinos due to loose fiber optic cable.

betterthanwell

A mundane cause for a surprising result. Consider this unconfirmed for now, however unsurprising it sounds.

According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos.

New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.

Source: Science/AAAS

A mundane cause for a surprising result. Consider this unconfirmed for now, however unsurprising it sounds.

According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos.

New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.

Source: Science/AAAS

I think LW shouldn't get distracted

From what exactly? What discussion have we been having in the last day or so that I missed out on by reading this for 20 seconds? Or, in the counterfactual world where nobody posted this or was distracted by reading it what is the expected caliber of post that some undistracted viewer would otherwise have written?

From what exactly? What discussion have we been having in the last day or so that I missed out on by reading this for 20 seconds?

Things other than discussions on LW, the measure of its comparative quality. I agree that this doesn't clearly apply to this particular case, I was talking more about news in general.

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