Posted: Feb 22, 2012 9:24 pm
by twistor59
Sean Carroll is urging caution (quite rightly):

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/02/22/neutrinos-and-cables/

I suppose it’s possible. But man, that would make the experimenters look really bad. And the sourcing in the article is just about as weak as it could be: “according to sources familiar with the experiment” is as far as it goes. (What is this, politics?)

So it’s my duty to pass it along, but I would tend to reserve judgment until a better-sourced account comes along. Not that there’s much chance that neutrinos are actually moving faster than light; that was always one of the less-likely explanations for the result. But this isn’t how we usually learn about experimental goofs.