That MINOS saw something like this before is pretty interesting. Other thing to consider is SN1987A—at the rate the CERN neutrinos were traveling we should have detected neutrinos of SN1987A four years before it was visible.
The fact that this was made public like this suggests they are very confident they haven’t made any obvious errors.
This paper discusses the possibility of neutrino time travel.
I’ll say 0.9 non-trivial experimental set-up error (no new physics but nothing silly either). 0.005 something incompetent or fraudulent. Remainder is new physics “something I don’t know about, “neutrinos sometimes travel backwards in time” and “special relativity is wrong” 8000:800:1.
That MINOS saw something like this before is pretty interesting. Other thing to consider is SN1987A—at the rate the CERN neutrinos were traveling we should have detected neutrinos of SN1987A four years before it was visible.
The fact that this was made public like this suggests they are very confident they haven’t made any obvious errors.
This paper discusses the possibility of neutrino time travel.
There is a press conference at 10 AM EST.
I’ll say 0.9 non-trivial experimental set-up error (no new physics but nothing silly either). 0.005 something incompetent or fraudulent. Remainder is new physics “something I don’t know about, “neutrinos sometimes travel backwards in time” and “special relativity is wrong” 8000:800:1.