[time-nuts] Opera coordinator has resigned

Javier Herrero jherrero at hvsistemas.es
Fri Mar 30 15:21:32 UTC 2012


El 30/03/2012 16:55, Javier Serrano escribió:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, iovane at inwind.it<iovane at inwind.it>  wrote:
>> http://inagist.com/all/185697069783195648/
>>
>> Personally I'm sorry about such an end of the story.
>
> There was a meeting in Gran Sasso on Wednesday. You can see some of
> the slides at http://agenda.infn.it/materialDisplay.py?materialId=slides&confId=4896
Thanks for sharing them
>
>
> I found particularly interesting the ones by Maximiliano Sioli, where
> he explained the two mistakes found in the OPERA data acquisition
> chain and how, after correcting for their best estimate of their
> effects, the time of flight is compatible with a speed of c.
The devil is ever in the small things :) It is truly very interesting
>
>
> I saw the webcast of the event. Some people did give the OPERA
> spokesman a hard time, and he admitted to not having fully checked
> everything they could have. Ah well, everyone makes mistakes. There
> will be another run with neutrinos spaced by 100 ns in May. If all
> four experiments in LNGS give the same result this time, I suppose the
> case will be closed. It will also be very interesting to see the MINOS
> results.
>
> In any event, from a time-nut point of view this is quite exciting. It
> is the first time neutrino speed is measured with this precision. I
> think this will pave the way for future experiments using precision
> geodesy and time transfer.
This is true. And also perhaps the use of neutrinos for time transfer 
purposes :) Nowadays nort their generation in a controlled way either 
the detection is easy, but who knows in the future...

Regards,

Javier




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