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I’m Shocked! Shocked! to Find There Are Neutrinos Going On Here

Tom Levenson
Tom Levenson
Professor of Science Writing

Many physicists note that challenges to special relativity have a very poor track record.

While the experimental technique reported in the OPERA measurement is good enough to be taken seriously, many physicists note that challenges to special relativity have a very poor track record. A number of other observations would have to be radically reinterpreted for the measurement of the travel time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso to stand up as an authentic discovery of faster than light travel.

Read more at Scientific American

Thomas Levenson
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Thomas Levenson

Professor Thomas Levenson is the winner of Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award, Peabody Award (shared), New York Chapter Emmy, and the AAAS/Westinghouse award. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Discover, and The Sciences. He is winner of the 2005 National Academies Communications Award for Origins.

Thomas Levenson Written by Thomas Levenson