[time-nuts] Opera coordinator has resigned

[J. Forster]

There are failures and there are failures.

A negative result is a failure that is worth reporting.

A failure due to an improperly mated connector...  not so much.

When doing a complex experiment, you have to be an absolute SOB about
everything. "You cannot inspect in quality".

YMMV,

-John

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> On 03/30/2012 04:55 PM, Javier Serrano wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> As in any research, even a failure is worth reporting, as people can
> learn from it. Many forget this and tend to select their results which
> can be a danger as you can go into bad science that way.
>
>> 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.
>
> Will be quite interesting to follow.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>
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