Category: Personal Musings

• Neutrinos, Wishful Thinking, and the Sloth of Science

  I haven’t been keeping up with neutrino blogging since the first two weeks after the big OPERA announcement last September. To recap: the OPERA collaboration (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) released results showing neutrinos arriving about 60 nanoseconds too soon, meaning they were somehow travelling faster than the speed of light. The ensuing public narrative…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 16, 2012

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Personal Musings