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Oct. 15th, 2011 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingFTL neutrino results explained.... by special relativity.
Short version: a Dutch scientist has shown that the original paper didn't account for the motion of the GPS satellites used to sync the clocks, and instead assumed that since the clocks were both syncing from the same source and the clocks themselves weren't moving, that was okay. Catch: The SYNC SOURCE was moving, from source towards destination.
And he did the math and showed that accounting for this would make the source clock run 32ns slow and the destination clock run 32ns fast, combining to 64ns - almost exactly the "FTL" time discrepancy.
Short version: a Dutch scientist has shown that the original paper didn't account for the motion of the GPS satellites used to sync the clocks, and instead assumed that since the clocks were both syncing from the same source and the clocks themselves weren't moving, that was okay. Catch: The SYNC SOURCE was moving, from source towards destination.
And he did the math and showed that accounting for this would make the source clock run 32ns slow and the destination clock run 32ns fast, combining to 64ns - almost exactly the "FTL" time discrepancy.
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Date: 2011-10-15 09:44 pm (UTC)assume the position!
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Date: 2011-10-16 10:04 pm (UTC)http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/10/experimentalists_arent_idiots.php