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CERN Neutrino Experimental Error - Not FTL After All

02/22/2012 4:37 PM

Looks like a timing error due to a hardware fault is the culprit.

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02/22/2012 5:09 PM

Whew, that's a relief! I was starting to feel like this kid...

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02/22/2012 5:44 PM

Oh well,, back to the drawing board...neutrino faster than light spaceship...

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Re: CERN Neutrino Experimental Error - Not FTL After All

02/22/2012 5:52 PM

Does this mean my time machine isn't going to work?

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02/22/2012 6:52 PM

I'd tell you, but I don't want to spoil your past.
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02/23/2012 11:25 AM

Absolutely not! Yours is based on different technology. But I don't want to spoil the surprise.
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02/22/2012 6:49 PM

I will have dismantle my Church of the Greater than Light Speed. I wonder if I will have to return the donations?

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02/22/2012 6:51 PM

Keep the faith. That way you can still qualify as a tax exempt entity.
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02/23/2012 12:38 AM

The tachyons may be looking for new members...
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02/23/2012 10:14 AM

Just tell the patrons you will return them yesterday.

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02/22/2012 7:55 PM

Does this mean I need to readjust my sundial back by 60 nanoseconds?
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02/22/2012 8:00 PM

"A loose connection between a timer and a computer..."

Ahhh, a euphemism for 'We forgot to to plug it in."

D'ohhh!

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02/22/2012 10:39 PM

That's why those connectors have those two thumbscrews!
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02/23/2012 3:56 AM

Isn't it the guy who announced too early who gets the thumbscrews?
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02/23/2012 6:10 AM

Like that infamous lab technician at Wright Patterson Air Force Base that kept screwing up? What was his name??? Ah, yes... Murphy!
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02/23/2012 12:52 PM

I resent that slur on Murphy's memory. Murphy was the scientist, the researcher who re-discovered the principle. O'Toole commented that, "Murphy is an optimist."

I first heard of it inthe form, "If there is more than one way to perform an operation, and if one of those ways will end in disaster, someone will do it that way".

I have confirmed that, "toast almost always falls buttered side down" from experience.

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02/23/2012 2:29 PM

Actually, Murphy was a technician at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

I can only paraphrase the original remark, but an engineer at WPAFB remarked "If anyone can do it wrong, Murphy can!"

Murphy had a reputation for making things go wrong to the point where "Murphy's Laws" resulted as the folk lore we know today.

There is a placard to this effect at the Dayton Air Force Museum if you ever get that way.
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02/23/2012 10:18 AM

Hey, if this is the biggest "OOPS" from CERN, no worries. If something bigger happens, we might not even have time to BLOG about it

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