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Old 09-22-2011, 03:48 PM  
Nembrionic
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Wow is that ever cool:



I wonder then if the Nutrino arrived BEFORE it left Geneva?

Hmmmm..
No, it does't mean that.

The neutrino had to travel about 700km. You can then calculate the time it should take to get there.

So with 299 792 458m/s over 700,000m..that's about 0.002334948 seconds if I'm not mistaken.

A nanosecond is 0.000000001 seconds.

According to the artical, what happens is is that it arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected.

So: 0.002334948 - 0.000000060 = 0.002334888 seconds over the 700km.
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