Re:Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to ba...
by nu23 on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @05:43PM
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Otoh, one of the early tests for general relativity was a minor deviation in Mercury's orbit from what was predicted by classical mechanics. My rough intuition is that inconsistencies can show up initially as faint flickers, but once you investigate more closely, one can find interesting and prominent counter examples.
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Re:Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to ba...
by jackfoxy on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:42PM
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I'm not an expert on this, but I believe the deviation in Mercury's orbit was easily observed and calculated, and thus became in a sense a binary call-out of Newtonian physics. Until highly precise measurements of relativistic velocities is common place, experiments like this are of course valuable and interesting, but one instance of an experimental result like this cannot be relied upon to supersede special relativity.