davidjamesweir’s Twitter Archive—№ 828

OlgaPena Happens in physics too! There was an experiment where neutrinos appeared to travel faster than light en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly. They put out a preprint (arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897) to seek input from the community to understand the experimental errors, but media sensationalised it.