We’ve been working hard at Fermilab this year, and have been making several trips up as our SeaQuest experiment collects data. We recently spotted a sign on the Fermilab campus:
For the record, the OPERA result suggesting that neutrinos go faster than the speed of light is thoroughly dead, and all of the nails are quite securely in the coffin. The experiment was refuted twice by ICARUS, and then OPERA eventually traced the problem down to a connection between a fiber optic cable and a hardware board. Apparently, the spokesperson for OPERA is stepping down, but don’t try to read any scandal here. Science is hard, which is why unexplainable results are both exciting and terrifying, but in the end we will learn what holds up in the lab.
Happy Fun Friday.
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