In September 2011, the OPERA experiment at CERN reported that neutrinos travel faster than light. Nearly two hundred papers tried to make sense of the results in terms of new physics. In July 2012, the experimentalists corrected their conclusion after further analysis and declared that the speed of neutrinos is consistent with the speed of light. The mistake was traced to the experimental hardware. The error resulted from a loose fiber cable that linked a GPS receiver to the OPERA master clock, increasing the time delay through the link.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 21 Nov
I still remember the excitement and skepticism regarding these results. This came way before social media was as big as it is now. The LK-99 debacle did proliferate much more widely because of social media. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, lots of people got to know about superconductivity, but still, a bit more skepticism would have been warranted.
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 20 Nov
ah damn it, you ruined my whole plans to build a turbo encabulator based on neutrinos for my starship...
btw this is my spaceship I tried to adapt for this turbo encabulator
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 20 Nov
Lol 😂 pretty ambitious project 🤣 and it looks so... familiar - I don't know where I saw it before 💭
Please don't let my article unmotivate you! 🚀
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 20 Nov
ofc your article is good, only that now, being trapped on this fucked up planet, I have to redesign my starships in order to be be able to escape, back to my home planet Mustafar.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 20 Nov
It sounds like a plan only if there are other living extraterrestrials in Mustafar.
Otherwise, I don't think you (or anyone else) would feel any better being wherever in the Universe alone...
I understand your point (and to some extend agree with you) about the fact this planet is a little bit 🤏 f**ked and we, the humans, have the whole credit about it but believe me there will be no point of living if we have to do it on our own!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 21 Nov
Beautiful. Is that cardboard?
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