[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

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.

I agree that this doesn't clearly apply to this particular case, I was talking more about news in general.

Yes, news in general is boring. I avoid news enough that this post is the first I heard (and only likely source) about this subject.

0wedrifid14y

For example I could have spent that 20 seconds researching new conversation material so I don't lose nerd status when I meet with my engineer friends? Oh. That's a fairly big goalpost switch by the way. You went from saying lesswrong should be distracted by this and it should be talked about elsewhere to relying on lesswrong itself being for most intents and purposes a waste of time relative to actually living. In fact, since your initial move was to place this topics outside the scope of lesswrong the comparison ends up being, among other things, between reading a lesswrong spin on neutrinos-speed research and discussing the same subject somewhere else where the relevant biases related to updating on this kind of research wouldn't even be comprehended.

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