I’ll say this for the OPERA team in Italy – their decision to open up their faster-than-light neutrino results to the physics community has produced an absolutely fascinating burst of activity and creativity in finding explanation for those results. There are already literally dozens of papers up on the subject, and I only wish I had time to read them all.
The fact remains, though, that unless OPERA’s results are independently verified, the general view in the physics community is that the faster than light result is most likely a measurement error. In fact, a new paper written by Carlo Contaldi at Imperial College challenges the calculations themselves that the OPERA team used to arrive at their faster-than light findings.
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