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and all of physics is now in jeopardy of collapsing around us…
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10:00 This study still doesn’t have a huge degree of significance.
Untrue. The results are good to 6-sigma.
The measured velocity is in excess of the c by 13,000+ miles per hour!
If correct, this study has the most significance of any published this decade!
11:07 Our resolution isn’t that fine, for what we’re looking for.
Untrue for the same reason.
The 6-sigma result means the resolution is just fine for what we’re looking for, thank you very much.
You may have confused these recent results from OPERA with the MINOS experiment.
In MINOS, the neutrino had a velocity in excess of c at only 1-sigma.
See: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4980
7:37 They might actually be Tachyons.
As it turns out, and for the same reason as above (the “huge degree of significance”), they cannot be Tachyons.
Treating the muon neutrino as a Tachyon, the excess of c is calculated to be on the order 10-14 seconds.
This large result of the order 10-8, a HUGE degree of significance, and require a different explanation.
See: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5599
Kirsten, I wish you wouldn’t try to apply your own guesswork qualia to things which have already been quantified.
In this case, you’re making out a result to be insignificant because you have a healthy skepticism of a grand claim.
The claim is grand, and the results may yet be wrong, but the statistical significance can be questioned by no one.
6-sigma is physically relevant for this sort of finding. End of story.
The physical interpretation for the results, however, is an interesting topic for theoretical speculation!
I’m glad you explored the Tachyon approach.
I hope you include the above article on that topic as a follow up in next week’s show.
11:50 It depends on if you consider any energy light, which at some point I think they do.
Um, no!!! Why do you say things like this???
Light MUST travel at c, massive particles can NEVER travel at c.
The two couldn’t be more different.
Fundamental particles have duality with waves in quantum mechanics, maybe that’s what you’re “thinking” about.
12:00 That would be the new benchmark, and photons move a little slower than that.
It is an intuitive but naive idea to substitute one maximum speed limit with another.
This is inconsistent with Maxwell’s equations and is routinely excluded by High School physics experiments.
39:20 [The San] may be the most pure, closest to the lineage to original humans.
This viewpoint is incorrect.
When two species diverge from a common ancestor, neither lineage is any “closer” to this ancestor than the other.
Instead, we say the San were the earliest to diverge of all modern human populations.
This does NOT make them more “pure”; what an ugly, racist word!
Nor does it make them “more closely related” than you or I to the shared ancestor of all humans!
I was thinking about it later on, and I recall Kirsten refer to the Tachyon as having negative mass.
This is incorrect, the rest mass is imaginary, not negative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
I would like to share a rap song I wrote about the OPERA neutrino observation:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/dekn6j
Music video coming soon, if I can get my wife to do me up in Insane Clown Posse makeup.
Justin, would love to hear you rap this.
Just for Jackson;
Neutrinos, photons, gravitational lensing, relativity.
Hey, you are always on about gravity,
here is one that i have been working on for a few years and finally this netrinos being 16meters ahead is some measurable evidence of my idea.
Gravity is viscous to anything with mass. like magnets and conductors.
If photons, electrons etc slow slightly in gravity but the neutrinos dont then that will explain the 16m difference in arrival from italy but still allows the 3 hour early from the supernova in 4 years as the majority of its travel was outside significant gravitational fields.
This drag will explain gravitational lensing of light passing through the gravity field without having to warp space/time.
This can also explain the double slit experiment as there would be a “bow wake” produced in the gravity field as it slows the photon, this gives the wave and particle effects as the photon will slide down into the interference pattern produced by the two waves.
This also will seem to slow time as the electron orbits speed will be affected by the gravity density.
If enough energy is pushed into the bow wake it can then “tear off” into matter particles.
Yes, i know i am wrong, but i really would like to talk to someone that can understand the math well enough to show me that i am wrong. I think there is enough data out there now with this neutrino speed issue that my idea can be mathmatically proved or disproved .
Thanks for reading this, I hope i get a reply.
Gravity is viscous to anything with mass. like magnets and conductors.
Unlike “magnets and conductors”, gravity only comes in one polarity: attractive.
There is no such thing as a gravitational dipole.
If photons, electrons, etc. slow slightly in gravity…
The neutrino velocity in the OPERA paper is compared to the speed of light in a VACUUM.
This is not the time actual light would take to travel the same distance.
For one thing, there is an awful lot of stuff in the way, all that Earth.
The OPERA results can NOT be explained by a gravitational interaction.
The neutrino velocities did not correlate to their mass.
Any gravitational explanation MUST corralate to mass.
This drag will explain gravitational lensing of light passing through the gravity field…
No, it wont. The angle of deflection is given by: (4 * G * M) / (r * c^2)
Notice that the angle does not depend on the velocity of the source radiation.
If this apparent deflection were due to “drag” it would depend on the SQUARE of the a velocity!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_%28physics%29
This can also explain the double slit experiment as there would be a “bow wake”…
No, this does not explain why single photons can interfere with themselves.
In fact, an object, like a ship, pushing a bow wake will not be pushed off-corse at all.
This also will seem to slow time as the electron orbits speed will be affected by the gravity density.
I don’t have any idea what you mean here…
If enough energy is pushed into the bow wake it can then “tear off” into matter particles.
… or here. Sorry.