6 responses to “Oh boy! Yippee!”
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Dang.
Dang!
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I certainly don’t know. You can take heart from the fact that there’s at least one explanation which still hasn’t been discounted–some complex (obviously) thing involving a discrepancy in determining the time at the two points. I would bet that eventually the finding will prove to be erroneous.
I don’t delight in this out of any desire to see physicists vexed, by the way. Fundamentally I just like the idea that there is always another mystery around the bend.
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Did you hear that, about the time discrepancy, from me, or from somewhere reputable? I’d like to know whether they worked that effect into the most recent analysis. I hope not. If so, they’ll have to find another problem somewhere.
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It wasn’t you, though I don’t know how reputable it was. It was within a week or so after the first announcement, several weeks ago. Although it’s a little like someone who’s nearly blind trying to describe a robbery suspect, I don’t think the description in the article I linked to here of the adjustments made in the new experiment involve the same question as the thing I read. I want to say GPS was involved in it somehow.
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Ah, that does make me feel better. Thanks.
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