On Nov 18, 3:26*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 11/18/11 12:34 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

Faster-than-light particles repeat speed despite tweaks - Technology &
Science - CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/st...nce-faster-tha...

"Subatomic particles were again clocked travelling faster than light by
European researchers after the experiment was revised to rule out a
certain type of error."

* *We often had students that would send a print job to the printer,
* *and when that didn't print, they would send it again... and again....
* *and again... and again...

* *I wonder how many times the neutrino experiment will be repeated
* *without changing anything.

Actually, they did change something. The pulses are now much narrower,
so that the chief complaint -- pulse-shape matching -- can be ruled
out as a systematic error.