http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/11/17/faster-than-light-neutrino-measurement-withstands-new-test/

November 17, 2011 | 7:29 pm


"Scientists modified the beam of neutrinos traveling through the Earth from CERN to INFN. Image: Jean-Luc Caron

The OPERA experiment’s surprising superluminal neutrino result is holding fast after a new measurement designed to eliminate a possible source of systematic error from their previous tests.

OPERA scientists reported the new results in a press release and a paper released on the arXiv today.

“The positive outcome of the test makes us more confident in the result,” said Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics. But “a final word can only be said by analogous measurements performed elsewhere in the world.”

On Nov 17, 2011, at 5:33 PM, JACK SARFATTI wrote:

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-theorem-shakes-foundations-1.9392


“I don't like to sound hyperbolic, but I think the word 'seismic' is likely to apply to this paper,” says Antony Valentini, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum foundations at Clemson University in South Carolina.

On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:48 AM, JACK SARFATTI wrote:


On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:18 AM, art wagner wrote:

http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/future_influence_quantum_physics_precognition_or_pseudoscience-84265


"From time to time and against strong resistance from the scientific establishment, inspired scientists come out of the closet and dare to publicly consider whether the future can influence the present. Is it in principle possible that we may be able to partially perceive the future say via evolved emotional responses? Future influence has been proposed by Roger Penrose in order to explain how certain crystals grow. So called quasi-periodic crystals avoid additions of atoms into places and orientations that are perfectly allowed while growing, but whose occupation would lead to future mismatches in the resulting, larger crystal (this is due to quasi-periodic crystals not having periodic order over large distances like usual crystals). The idea involves backward causation, also called retrocausality: The consistency of the future state guides the present growth via quantum interference."