Faster-than-light neutrino experiment to be run again

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By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

The neutrinos are fired deep under the Italian Apennines to the Gran Sasso lab

Scientists who announced that sub-atomic particles might be able to travel faster than light are to rerun their experiment in a different way.

This will address criticisms and allow the physicists to shore up their analysis as much as possible before submitting it for publication.

Dr Sergio Bertolucci said it was vital not to "fool around" given the staggering implications of the result.

So they are doing all they can to rule out more pedestrian explanations.

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[Eddie Haskell]

1. Doing all they can to rule out the more "pedestrian explanations"

Like the one they overlooked.:)

[rug]

2. I wish they'd hurry up and settle this.

[Occulus]

3. Oh, it's going to take months.

We'll be into summer of next year before we hear anything definitive.

I don't blame them for being cautious as all hell on this one. If they did in fact observe what they thought they did, well, I don't think I want to go into the implications of that.

[Posteritatis]

4. Depending on how it goes this will likely take years, not weeks, to "settle." (nt)