转自科学期刊的新闻主页 http://news.sciencemag.org，第一段我大概翻译了一下，看到这个消息，我深感欣慰。

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去年九月份由意大利OPERA合作研究公布的中微子超光速的实验结果看起来仅仅是一个失误，很可能归咎于定位系统和计算机之间的不良接触。

It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame.

Physicists had detected neutrinos travelling from the CERN laboratory in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory near L'Aquila that appeared to make the trip in about 60 nanoseconds less than light speed. Many other physicists suspected that the result was due to some kind of error, given that it seems at odds with Einstein's special theory of relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. That theory has been vindicated by many experiments over the decades.

According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos. New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.

这就是说科学家这次是犯了低级错误了？刚刚才看到一本科普杂志（记得好象是“Discover”）还把中微子超光速列为2011年百大科学发现之首啊。

见微知著，这回意大利佬真是有点面上无光了。怪不得意大利游轮会沉，都是低估了光速以致算错了目测到礁石的距离与游轮航速之间关系弄的。

There must be a testing for each equipment before the experiment is done

这也太恶搞了吧？

"在拧紧了连接头后，他们对中微子飞行时间的再次测量发现60纳秒差异消失了。"
我靠！这个也行！怎么和我做的实验报告差不多！我已经多次被导师骂了。

必将成为千古笑料，哈哈~~

还以为愚人节提前了呢。

不过这个风波既然搅出来了，应该有人会做进一步的实验来正面检验该实验，包括对该实验的上述怀疑（BTW，有第一手资料的链接吗？那条新闻看起来像是匿名爆料）。

由于一般人不会想到这种低级错误，以致于对超光速结果还存在几分信任

如果第一手消息是指研究者自己公布的结论，还没有看到第一手消息。

我指的是论文，或以整个实验组的名义发布的消息。刚才看到下面这则报道:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223081231.htm

从这则报道看上述可能性已经是整个实验组共同承认的可能性了:"The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement."

打从 Arno Penzias 和 Robert Woodrow Wilson 两位前辈发现白鸽屎不是个问题然后醒悟到发现了最深奥永恒的宇宙微波以后，以超越前辈为追求的新一代高端实验人员每当发现光速有异常的时候大概首先就是投入到思考额外维度这种额外思维里了。现在看来，能让中微子抄近路跑的高维的存在证据还没法找到，抄近路暴走到斯德哥尔摩赴盛宴的近路也不好找啊。六个西格玛不知道有没有包括清理白鸽屎细细检查电线有没有绷紧这类低端活儿。不过可惜的是，那位对粗看电缆线细看有蚂蚁绕着电线爬这种现象有精深研究的大美女Lisa Randall看来还得落寞一阵子了。还是我们站长洞察先机，每当茶室里有热茶端上时先吹一口凉气再品，说中微子超光速这码事要么不超，要么就特超，不可能这么鬼鬼祟祟只超个百分之零点零零几的。这就叫淡定。

过奖了，宇澄兄有空写篇评论邻家第三代酋长的文章吧。当年你那篇有关第二代酋长的文章妙趣横生，我至今记忆犹新。前些天你在拙作后留言说＂算是我中文生疏，误解了卢兄文中的意思＂，我正是想起那篇文章，知道你的中文是绝对不生疏的，于是赶紧检视自己的文字，结果发现果真有歧义。。。扯远了，还是说第三代酋长吧，此酋长的样子真是忠厚，甚至有些憨厚了，令俺恨不能把他拉到茶室来当茶友。:-) 宇澄兄有空点评一二吧，以免俺以貌取人。:-)

宇澄有才.....话说，我们家莎莎最近怎么没动静了？还是因为国内上不了谷歌我搜不到的缘故？

第三代酋长...记得曾经拿他握望远镜的镜头开涮也掰嗤过几句的。至于他这人是真的有非比寻常气派所经之处能让人幻觉天空同时出现三道彩虹，还是一个跟咱们皇孙类同的白痴，来日方长，看点犹多，不妨淡定地走着瞧吧。

在这不多言了，有点喧宾夺主了。

宇澄有才.....话说，我们家莎莎最近怎么没动静了？还是因为国内上不了谷歌我搜不到的缘故？
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乱用头像经过同意了没有？

乱用头像经过同意了没有？
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没事，她老公不上这里。她在我的梦里也向我授权了.....