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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by baddox on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:13PM (#3250421)
I'm wondering: what do the involved scientists think might be the source of error? GPS timing (namely, the synchronization of the two remote clocks) sounds likely to me, because I was initially surprised that they could even hope to have sufficiently accurate chronography to detect such a small duration.
Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by lwat on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:06PM (#3250565)
You should read the paper, they go through that in great detail. I'm not an expert but their clocks are being synchronized via two methods (GPS and fiber-optic connect) independently. They're pretty sure the timing is correct down to 1 nanosecond.