[time-nuts] Opera coordinator has resigned

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Fri Mar 30 17:16:33 UTC 2012


On 03/30/2012 04:55 PM, Javier Serrano wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, iovane at inwind.it<iovane at inwind.it>  wrote:
>> http://inagist.com/all/185697069783195648/
>>
>> Personally I'm sorry about such an end of the story.
>
> There was a meeting in Gran Sasso on Wednesday. You can see some of
> the slides at http://agenda.infn.it/materialDisplay.py?materialId=slides&confId=4896
>
> I found particularly interesting the ones by Maximiliano Sioli, where
> he explained the two mistakes found in the OPERA data acquisition
> chain and how, after correcting for their best estimate of their
> effects, the time of flight is compatible with a speed of c.
>
> I saw the webcast of the event. Some people did give the OPERA
> spokesman a hard time, and he admitted to not having fully checked
> everything they could have. Ah well, everyone makes mistakes. There
> will be another run with neutrinos spaced by 100 ns in May. If all
> four experiments in LNGS give the same result this time, I suppose the
> case will be closed. It will also be very interesting to see the MINOS
> results.

As in any research, even a failure is worth reporting, as people can 
learn from it. Many forget this and tend to select their results which 
can be a danger as you can go into bad science that way.

> In any event, from a time-nut point of view this is quite exciting. It
> is the first time neutrino speed is measured with this precision. I
> think this will pave the way for future experiments using precision
> geodesy and time transfer.

Will be quite interesting to follow.

Cheers,
Magnus





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