Einstein

“We are completely compatible with the speed of light that we learn at school”

Pete Baker on March 16, 2012, 8:58 pm

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Jim “I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV” Al-Khalili can probably put the ketchup down now. The somewhat excitable BBC science report notes that the Icarus group at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy have published the results of a new experiment testing the speed of neutrinos. And guess what? They’re not faster-than-light. [They never were! – Ed] Indeed. From the BBC science report The Icarus experiment uses 600 tonnes – 430,000 litres – of liquid argon to detect the …

Faster-than-light neutrinos? Not so fast…

Pete Baker on February 23, 2012, 6:25 pm

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The Telegraph’s Tom Chivers might be a little premature with his “I told you so“, but the reality is that theoretical physicist Jim “I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV” Al-Khalili can probably put the ketchup down. As the historically “somewhat excited” BBC report, “Faster-than-light neutrinos could be down to bad wiring“. Needless to say, the situation is a little bit more complicated than the BBC headline suggests… As the Guardian report notes Late on Wednesday night, scientists at the Opera …

Was Einstein wrong? Probably not.

Niall Fealty on September 23, 2011, 4:44 pm

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Ok, this is where my profile picture becomes relevant(-ish) You may have read in the news today that Einstein was wrong. This is due to people drawing conclusions without enough information (it’s not the first time either, see physicists try to destroy Earth with black hole, Higgs boson found, and other such news stories). Luckily though, not everyone out there has jumped on the bandwagon. The result published by CERN today (the paper in question is here) was from an experiment involving …