CERNs Them Right!

1. Our friends at CERN have now confirmed that neutrinos don't achieve faster than light speeds.
2. Their friends at a variety of other research organizations have also confirmed that fact.
3. In fact, their friends have helped to identify some of the various problems with CERN's initial experiment which led to the assertion that they had seen Faster Than Light (FTL) neutrinos.

While this should be no real surprise to anyone who's been following the story, the most interesting part is yet to come. Having hoodwinked many of the major particle physics investigators into looking into this FTL neutrino question, the investigators at CERN have managed to give themselves a relatively uncrowded window in which to further their search for the Higgs boson.

We should expect some kind of announcement from CERN regarding either the finding of the Higgs or of their having excluded yet another energy range from its potential home.

When will the particle physics community learn not to take any announcements from CERN at face value? They've done nothing but spout red herrings for the past year or more, whether "sharing" the best places to look for the Higgs boson or telling us they've found it, but won't have confirmation for several months, or they've seen FTL neutrinos and need help figuring out what's actually going on, or any number of other things.

CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci said, in a press release, that ”Although this result isn’t as exciting as some would have liked, it is what we all expected deep down.
“The story captured the public imagination, and has given people the opportunity to see the scientific method in action – an unexpected result was put up for scrutiny, thoroughly investigated and resolved in part thanks to collaboration between normally competing experiments. That’s how science moves forward."

That's how science moves forward indeed - by pulling the proverbial wool over the eyes of competing investigators in order to grab the glory. Lobachevsky anyone?

Watch this space to see what's really been going on at CERN - it should be quite interesting!

Posted by Procrustes 17

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Results Are Still UnCERNtain

1. Scientists at CERN's LHC had reported clocking neutrinos at speeds faster than light.
2. Without radical changes to all of currently-understood physics, this simply didn't make sense.
3. CERN called for other labs to examine their experiment and help to find the flaws - if there were any.
4. CERN is now claiming to have found two separate problems in the setup of this experiment - one that would overstate the speed, and another that would understate it.

Bowing to pressure from Listener 43, I'm posting a quick response to all this brouhaha, in spite of the fact that nothing has really been determined at this point.
It still seems likely to me that this whole mis-measurement was foisted upon the scientific world as a distraction - a red herring, as it were - to keep other, competing labs from making any progress in their search for the Higgs boson. CERN has consistently seemed to mislead their "colleagues" (read competitors) as to the likelihood of finding the Higgs in various energy levels, and I, for one, see no reason not to think this is simply more of the same.

Still, time will tell (how's that for a punnish ending?)

Posted by Procrustes 17

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Extinct Bees Back From The Dead?

1. A bee species (Cockerell's Bumblebee) went extinct last century - it was last observed in 1956.
2. Scientists in Europe have observed neutrinos moving faster than light
3. General Relativity indicates that faster than light = time travel to the past

When will the scientists at CERN release their entomological observations to accompany the results of their neutrino measurements?
Why do all branches of the federal government continue to remain silent on the threat of extinct species returning to life in the present due to uncontrolled experimentation by foreign scientists?
When with the news media report on this linkage?

We'll report back here as more information becomes available.

Posted by Listener 43

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Finally conCERNed About Facts

1. Some time ago, CERN announced they had clocked neutrinos moving faster than light.
2. They were uncomfortable with those results, so were asking other labs to try to confirm or refute these results.
3. CERN has now announced that they will also be running the experiment again to try to confirm or disprove their earlier conclusions.

Firstly, I suppose I should give them credit for realizing that neutrinos shouldn't be going faster than light and wanting to look into why they got those results.
Secondly, I should probably give then credit for asking other scientists at other labs to look into their results and try to replicate the experiment.
Thirdly, they should be roundly criticized and upbraided for only now deciding they might want to give their own experiment a second go, to see if the results are the same.

What kind of lab runs an experiment one time and then tells the world the results? The next thing you know, they'll be handicapping the likelihood of finding the Higgs boson before Christmas. Oh wait, they've already done that.

Looking at the points above, it appears that Meatloaf is in charge at CERN - they think that "two out of three ain't bad."

Posted by Procrustes 17

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