E=mc^2

[reiko18]

So I was in the shower seriously thinking about the current physical problem of neutrinos. I almost thought I'd solved it (because I think I am an idiot savant or something), but it turns out that neutrinos have mass. A small, insignificant amount of mass, that, while probably BARELY makes it above zero, is still not zero, and thanks to Einstein,

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[unrelatedwaffle]

I'm pretty sure they redid the "faster than light" experiment and it was debunked.

Also, you should watch this terrifying anime Stein;sGate or however they punctuate it, and then you will see why, after episode 14 or so, I saw "CERN" and was like OH GOD NOOOOOOOO!

[reiko18]

Actually they redid the experiment and got exactly the same results, and that included accounting for things like mechanical errors. So what they're doing now is having another lab run the same experiment to see what results they get.

Apparently in various tests where they've checked neutrinos' speed in the past, it's always measured as near the speed of light/slightly over the speed of light with an acceptable margin of error, and the big problem with CERN's (it was really a subset called OPERA, if that makes you feel better) experiment was that the time exceeded that margin of error.

[unrelatedwaffle]

In the comments on an article about it, I saw this gem:

"The bartender says "We don't serve faster-than-light particles in here." A neutrino walks into a bar."

[reiko18]

Yeah I ran across that while on Starts with a Bang.
I need to keep it in my nerd joke reservoir.