Two months after scientists reported that they had clocked subatomic particles known as neutrinos going faster than the speed of light, to the astonishment and vocal disbelief of most of the worlds physicists, the same group of scientists, known as Opera, said on Friday that it had performed a second experiment that confirmed its first results and eliminated one possible explanation for how the experiment could have gone wrong.
But the group admitted that many questions remain. This is not the end of the story, said Antonio Ereditato of the University of Bern in Switzerland, the spokesman for the collaboration, explaining that physicists would not accept the result that neutrinos could go faster than light until other experiments had come up with the same conclusion. We are convinced, but that is not enough in science, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/s...n-second-experiment-opera-scientists-say.html
But the group admitted that many questions remain. This is not the end of the story, said Antonio Ereditato of the University of Bern in Switzerland, the spokesman for the collaboration, explaining that physicists would not accept the result that neutrinos could go faster than light until other experiments had come up with the same conclusion. We are convinced, but that is not enough in science, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/s...n-second-experiment-opera-scientists-say.html