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The proton beam at CERN that produces the neutrinos detected at ICARUS and OPERA. Credit: CERN
Albert may still be right. An attempt to repeat an experiment that showed a subatomic particle traveling faster than the speed of light suggests that the earlier result may have erred, and that Einstein’s famed special theory of relativity remains intact.
A mostly European collaboration of physicists working on an experiment called ICARUS announced today that they had tracked neutrinos traveling from CERN, the particle physics lab outside Geneva, to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, in an Italian mountainside. That is the same subterranean, international traverse that neutrinos make in the OPERA experiment. But unlike OPERA, which found last year that neutrinos reached Italy 60 nanoseconds faster than they would traveling at the supposedly unbreakable cosmic speed limit, ICARUS found that the neutrinos made the trip at a velocity indistinguishable from light speed. The details of the ICARUS finding have been posted to the physics preprint server arXiv.org.
“The evidence is beginning to point towards the OPERA result being an artifact of the measurement,” CERN research director Sergio Bertolucci said in a prepared statement.
Potential explanations for the OPERA measurement emerged last month, when researchers on the project publicly announced that two issues with GPS synchronization had come to light. Whether those GPS problems alone can explain the 60-nanosecond discrepancy between measurement and theory has not been resolved.
The underground journey neutrinos take across Europe. Credit: CERN
From the beginning, the physicists working on OPERA were careful to note that their measurement was an anomaly, quite possibly one with a mundane explanation. When they announced their confounding findings in September, they refrained from venturing into any interpretations, saying that they wanted other physicists to help scrutinize the data first. “Whatever the result, the OPERA experiment has behaved with perfect scientific integrity in opening their measurement to broad scrutiny, and inviting independent measurements,” Bertolucci said. “This is how science works.”
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CERN’s neutrinos exceeding the speed of light @ v-c/c=2.48 sec in 453.6 miles is an exact match with Stanford’s SLAC E158 weak force asymmetry value showing the cause of 2.48e-5 is not the politics of a “loose fiber optic cable” checked countless times with the same “gain in space” shown by FERMI Lab’s neutrinos supporting an observation that goes back to 1947 and is summed up in 2007 by G. Nimtz and A. A. Stahlhofen who also thought it occurs outside the bounds of SR [arXiv:0708.0681v1] not aware of the simple explanation E158 data provides with direct proof provided by SLAC’s E158 data exposing a gain in 453.6 miles also @ 2.48e-5 with a .20 harmonic comma as I predicted for the needed asymmetry in the reverse arrow/phase of time the calculations reveal changing physics. SLAC’s data comes from the distance light travels in 1000 years at the speed of light in a ratio to a 1 hour SOL gain making this comparative measurement the most spectacular ever made in physics and does so in regard to the most important observation in the History of Man.
What this means is E=m+{a}c2 outside the weak force where E=mc2 inside it because the original equation does not include the photon’s force carrier space the neutrino provides to exit the weak force to the strong force. This changes physics far more that E=mc2 did due to the infrastructure in place to take advantage of the energy tap {a} provides. It brings back time in sync with Newton’s time but armed with E=mc2 corrected as well as Newton’s law by adding the second reverse phase in time held by “imaginary” numbers in physics that never adds up correct without {a} added to expose the second “real” phase in time. And one more thing, it shows we live in a world of only 3.6 seconds a year due to time dilation and that’s why atoms hang out so long but not their anti-matter reverse phases. When you look at the Sun you are observing the process of a speed of light clock where a thousand years in the inertial frame of the week force is an hour of a day relative to our body’s inertial frame of reference. Theata 13 shows there 3 points of observation within the weak force as I showed Erin Edwards in demonstrating the chemical source timing relative to a true inertial frame of reference that Mass location in time provides to create it’s placement within the DNA’s Gene Ensemble Instance Location.
Evanescent modes in FTIR between double prisms show the neutrino space being added as a product of the creation of light as well as space. Consciousness has Mass: get over it and let’s move on and dump the politics. The cat’s Mass is out of the bag and its alive.
John F. Hendry^^
Link to thisI forgot to mention that the neutrino does not exceed the speed of light. The weak force forms it’s space at the speed of light in transferring the photon. We are looking at a speed of light clock running fast keeping antimatter and matter particle phases in opposite phase: when the anti-graviton (Mass) goes down the electron goes up, and when the graviton goes down the anti-electron (Mass) goes up. Mass is doing the Moon Dance.
You start out with a basic simple atom first as the smallest single “whole unit” measurement of forward time before moving ahead billions of years without a true inertial frame of reference and the “working” influence of time dilation and harmonic laws that dictate what atoms are missing neutrons in a stable state, and torn apart in violent states. Take the smallest subatomic particle and you can put it back in time/space where it formed and it will fit.
The Great Professor was right: there are no dice and {a} adds the cosmological constant needed to balance “H”. But remember we are dealing with concepts built out of time so you can’t have two sides of one concept at the same exact time. You can’t put up where down goes, or movement (velocity) with non-movement (position). But since you can’t have nothing (no Observer) without something (the Observer) to create the concept of nothing this logic creates an arrow to put a concept in an information frame whereas one side will tell you the other side. God plays cards to say “I Am” and slip us a new card in the middle of saying it.
Low to high entropy, E=h+{a-lesser diesis}c/wavelength.
High to low entropy, E=h+{a}c/wavelength. The lesser diesis is named Einstein’s comma, but here it’s Maxwell’s Demon and it cannot be in two places at the same time/size.
Mass is only found in the inertial frame of reference of the weak force so E=mc2 is a concept itself. In the basic summery E=IR but also I=E/R, or wp=ST and S=wp/T where wp=weak pressure or quantum gravity that controls the direction of force time creates in space. It all depends on your chosen frame of reference: within the weak force or outside the weak force. Generally speaking “we” live outside the weak force and wp=S/T. But we certainly do have a connection to Mass and the ability to examine it.
Feynman introduced virtual particles in his diagrams as “non-observable” necessary intermediate states of an interaction process between observable “real” states. But as you can see neutrinos are quite observable as is their measurable effect using time that moves in two directions relative to the arrow of time within an atom.
John F. Hendry^^
Link to thisWe’re so sorry, Uncle Albert.
Link to thisNow must read OPERA article to understand how they dealt with Heisenberg issue, etc.
CERN’s neutrino data compared with SLAC’s E158 data dealing with an issue of space is making a tremendous impact on the study of time. Time requires a force that is provided by quantum gravity found in Mass within the weak force and was detected in the 80’s and called a “Zen event of one hand clapping” believed then to be a 5th force of Nature being detected by one of the most intelligent men in the World and an expert on the weak force, and this discovery was said to be making matters much more complicated because it was not understood. Had it been understood they had discovered the 2nd direction of Mass oscillation within the weak force they would have realized they had discovered the cause of mechanical non-subjective physical Mass based time to understand it, and the location of Mass and true anti-particle formation as well. Manmade anti-matter is a reverse phase energy model, and with the only possible exception the neutrino [RE: Hyman theory of neutrino mass] Mass is not found outside the weak force Mass oscillation cycle.
Quantum gravity is a unit measurement of E that starts the weak cycle as an anti-proton and it’s phase output is the anti-electron photon/neutrino pair becoming the anti-neutron and it’s phase input is the anti-graviton (what was detected) in the 4th phase of time in an atom’s anti-particle state which means Mass in the anti-graviton phase is oscillating back down and moving in a real non-imaginary reverse arrow of time exposing a reverse clock cycle where time runs backwards in the information frame between the anti-neutron and the next anti-proton showing time being conserved in the second arrow that points in the opposite direction of the initial arrow of time. I generally call it the second reverse arrow “of space” to separate the two arrows because space is the force carrier of cosmological gravity. As Mass in the anti-graviton phase is gaining E back in the weak force moving in the second reverse arrow the mass potential energy of the electron outside the weak force is losing E and this is why we see electricity moving backwards to pressure in its analogy to the flow of water. Quantum gravity is pushing the electron up, but Mass in it’s anti-graviton phase is going backwards relative to the arrow of time when it does it so we have been observing this since Ohm whom I am sure must have racked his brain to understand why. Difference requires asymmetry and energy creates time so time like energy is being conserved between two clocks playing catch with Mass. Understanding gravity’s reverse phase/clock is the key to traveling beyond our solar system as well as designing the vehicle to get us there. The ITS helicopter control system concept is no longer reserved for rotors relying on air for inertial frame contact. Now we have time connected to space.
John F. Hendry^^
Link to thisI felt easy after knew about the faulty optical fibre of CERN, however, i still wonder about the finding of ICARUS that neutrinoes were travelled at the same speed of light. I believe a mass should not travel at the same speed with light as it will violate the theory of relativity too. I tried my best to understand it and think about an explaination. I assume neutrinoes are existing and decaying simultaneously and what we detected is actually the sum of neutrinoes’ decaying vectors but not the real particles of tiny mass.
Link to thisAs shown above it was not caused by a faulty cable. This observation goes back to 1947 and was pointed out again in 2007 again by G. Nimtz and A. A. Stahlhofen who also thought it occurs outside the bounds of SR [arXiv:0708.0681v1] not aware of the simple explanation the E158 data provides with direct proof provided by SLAC’s E158 data exposing a gain in 453.6 miles also @ 2.48e-5 with a .20 harmonic comma as predicted for the needed asymmetry in the reverse arrow/phase of time the calculations revealed changing physics. The new figures correct the size of the harmonic comma and reveal a lot more that deals with astronomy proving it further. Numbers are not people: they only expose the truth. I assume your English is better than you state. You should use your real name when posting on these science fourms as others do.
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