Technology Review je objavio tekst o radu fizičara Ronalda van Elburga sa Groningen univerziteta iz Holandije koji tvrdi da je otkrio u čemu je greška eksperimenta na CERN-u u okviru kojeg je izmerena brzina neutrina veća od brzine svetlosti. Ova vest je pre nekoliko nedelja dovela do velikog interesovanja kako naučne javnosti tako i običnog sveta.
Tekst koji objašnjava pogled ovog fizičara je ovde. Na početku se kaže: „The relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS satellites exactly accounts for the superluminal effect, says physicist."
U tekstu pod naslovom "Faster-than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity" se još kaže:
"So what is the satellites' motion with respect to the OPERA experiment? These probes orbit from West to East in a plane inclined at 55 degrees to the equator. Significantly, that's roughly in line with the neutrino flight path. Their relative motion is then easy to calculate.
So from the point of view of a clock on board a GPS satellite, the positions of the neutrino source and detector are changing. "From the perspective of the clock, the detector is moving towards the source and consequently the distance travelled by the particles as observed from the clock is shorter," says van Elburg.
By this he means shorter than the distance measured in the reference frame on the ground.
The OPERA team overlooks this because it thinks of the clocks as on the ground not in orbit."
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1110.2685: Times Of Flight Between A Source And A Detector Observed From A GPS Satellite.
Ostaje da vidimo da li je Ronald van Elburg u pravu.
O ovoj temi sam pisao u prethodnom tekstu pod naslovom "U čemu je greška?"