I don't think it's as simple as that for the reason that I too thought of the difference in distance that the neutrinos would travel as the target turned toward the source -- and if I could come up with that, surely the 170 or so scientists who devised the experiment considered that too. Also, this article makes a strange assumption: that you add 30 nanoseconds to each end of the experiment. Why is that? I can see adding 30 to the target end, if that's what the difference is in distance, but it makes no sense at all to add it to the source end. If it was the answer were this obvious I doubt other big labs would be ramping up to check the results. -- Joe ________________________________ From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: "utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 11:26 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] no neutrino drive for NASA heavy lift rocket http://dvice.com/archives/2011/10/speedy-neutrino.php Here is a link to the most likely explanation of the anomolous neutrino results. It seems the experimenters didn't understand the implications of relativity well enough to account for them in their calculations. Sadly the media will not scream this from the mountain tops like they did the original report. Many people will miss the backtracking and be left with the wrong impression. Like I said before this incident is just another in the long 100 year history of relativity. When the Nazis came to power the fired anyone who believed in this "jewish physics" as they called it. That was until they figured out that the thing "might" be used to make a weapon. Then they started their own version of the Manhattan Project in an attempt to catch up with the rest of the world. The baby boomer generation was raised on the promise of space travel. We would vacation in Alpha Centauri and the trip to Pluto would be no more trouble than a ride down to Saint George. It didn't happen and Einstein took the blame. They now jump at any hint that it's "just a theory" and that it's about to be overturned by "new physics". All I can say is "I told you so". DT _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php