Usual sloppy reporting, or the sound of physics changing?

[seawasp]

This report claims actual scientists at CERN appear to have found something  -- neutrinos -- exceeding the speed of light. Not by a huge amount (about 2.5 parts in 100,000 if I do my math right), but ANY amount is just not possible as we currently understand things.

Of course, knowing science reporting...

Comments

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

From this morning's formal announcement: they're really not sure what's going on. The primary purpose of the announcement and release of data is to give the scientific community the opportunity to figure out the mistake. At the moment, they just don't know. There is much speculation among the neutrino folks at MIT (I work with them :) but no answers, not yet. My guess is the timing of the neutrino emitter or receiver is off. It's hard enough keeping two side-by-side computers accurate to within 1/10 of a second. They're doing it -- or failing to do it if my guess is correct -- at 10 nanosecond accuracy at a distance of almost 500 miles.

[saladin-count0.livejournal.com]

well the experiment was some time ago and they searched for an error but found nothing
the cern-people think that the machines worked just fine
so now someone else has to repeat the experiment
interesting times :-)))))