Following on from my other topic about the experts on here. As the subject of why neutrinos travel faster than light hasn't been posted suprises
me but I guess if you work in an underground bunker there is no point building a car. So my question is why/how can they.
My theory is they are Neutrino identical twins with well synconised watches just having a laugh at our expense but I am open to any other
suggestions.
Pete
I knew all about it, been watching the Doctor do it in the Tardis for years!
I believe one of the first theories off the block (and top of someone's head) is that they are taking a short cut through another dimension so aren't strictly violating the speed of light. Alternatively they'll find half a stale BLT in the detector.
In all fairness to the researchers, they're saying to the scientific world "We're sure these results are wrong, but we can't see
where - can anyone else spot the mistake?"
Actually quite a neat way of claiming the discovery before anyone else, in case their results are correct!
IMHO only, I think that because Neutrinos have zero mass they are not affected by Gravity. Photons on the other hand are reputed to have mass and are
therefore affected by gravity. It is therefore my postulation that in fact Neutrinos travel at the speed of light, but light as we measure it, has
been slowed slightly by gravitational effects and the very clever people at CERN are just too clever to spot the obvious.
There again, my handle 'Confused . . . etc' isn't there for nothing. 
Another thing that confuses me is; If, as according to Einstein, a body's mass tends towards infinity as it's velocity approaches
'c', then why does this not happen with photons? Surely if he was correct, photons would all be black holes.
You can clearly see why I am not a physisist.
Or am I just relatively confused.
[Edited on 28/9/11 by Confused but excited.]
It might be something to do with the fabric of space-time, and are thus moving between points of great distance yet travel at sub-light speeds.
There was an episode of "sci-fi science" where they explained that warping this fabric could mean faster than light travel without all the
problems of getting to that speed
It's spelt physicist, you are confused
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
It might be something to do with the fabric of space-time, and are thus moving between points of great distance yet travel at sub-light speeds.
There was an episode of "sci-fi science" where they explained that warping this fabric could mean faster than light travel without all the problems of getting to that speed
Did you get that info from the Junior Colour Encyclopedia of Space?
Faster than light information transfer has been known for many years now. It's called quantum entanglement.
my guess is that something may be working on the quantum level
.....OR, they just measured it wrong
We don't allow faster than light neutrinos in here" said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
It might be something to do with the fabric of space-time, and are thus moving between points of great distance yet travel at sub-light speeds.
There was an episode of "sci-fi science" where they explained that warping this fabric could mean faster than light travel without all the problems of getting to that speed
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neutrinos travel faster than light
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Originally posted by chrsgrain
We don't allow faster than light neutrinos in here" said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.
