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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by ced on Friday November 18, 2011 @02:09PM (#3252933)
By "frame of reference", I know you meant "inertial frame of reference", but of course the Earth moving around the sun and the solar system moving in the galaxy are not inertial. My weight is a bit stronger during the day than during the night because of the centrifugal force, isn't it?

I'm sure that the effects are tiny for the LHC, but are they accounted for at all?

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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by lisper on Friday November 18, 2011 @02:23PM (#3252989)
> you meant "inertial frame of reference"

Actually no. The speed of light is constant in ALL frames of reference, whether inertial or not. The math just gets more complicated in non-inertial frames. (That's the difference between special and general relativity.)

UPDATE: it's actually a little more complicated than that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_light_in_non-ine...

> I'm sure that the effects are tiny for the LHC

Actually, gravity is a pretty significant factor. See e.g.:

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....

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