Speed of light (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, March 17, 2012, 12:32 (4612 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Alarm's over. Albert got it right. Speed of light is still there with new neutron test:-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/03/16/not-so-fast-independent-mea...-"Whatever the result, the OPERA experiment has behaved with perfect scientific integrity in opening their measurement to broad scrutiny, and inviting independent measurements," Bertolucci said. "This is how science works."-And that is how scientists make fools of themselves and then congratulate themselves on exposing their own incompetence. Week after week we are being bombarded with sensational new discoveries and theories which then fade as rapidly as they appeared. Before making their results public, doing their interviews, apparently justifying the billions of dollars being pumped into their activities, why don't these folk wait till AFTER their "measurements" have been independently scrutinized and tested?
 
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to start a thread on Science and Language. How about this, then?
 
"The evidence is beginning to point towards the OPERA result being an artifact of the measurement," CERN research director Sergio Bertolucci said in a prepared statement. -An artifact of the measurement? I wonder how long it took him to prepare that statement. Why not just say they got it hopelessly wrong? One article that I read suggested the mistake was due to a faulty wire! These folk use language in much the same way as politicians, and on my personal trustometer their rating is rapidly approaching the same round figure.