Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa – Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet)
An evening pause: From Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tag: opera
Thomas Quasthoff & Sylvia Schwartz – Papageno & Papagena
An evening pause: From Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The science leaders on the team that announced faster-than-light neutrinos at CERN last year have stepped down.
The science leaders on the team that announced faster-than-light neutrinos at CERN last year have stepped down.
A different experiment at CERN has found that, in contradiction to the OPERA results last year, neutrinos travel at the speed of light, and no faster.
A different experiment at CERN has found that, in contradiction to the OPERA results last year, neutrinos travel at the speed of light, and no faster.
Two possible errors have been identified that might explain the faster than light neutrino results from last fall.
Two possible errors have been identified that might explain the faster than light neutrino results from CERN from last fall.
A team of Italian scientists have reviewed the earlier faster-than-light neutrino results and have rejected them.
Not so fast: A team of Italian scientists have reviewed the earlier faster-than-light neutrino results and have rejected them.
The CERN experiment that appeared to see faster-than-light neutrinos has repeated its results, except that not everyone on the team agrees
The uncertainty of science: The CERN experiment that appeared to see faster-than-light neutrinos has repeated its results, except that not everyone on the team agrees.
The new tests, completed 6 November, did away with the statistical analysis by splitting each pulse into bunches just 1- to 2-nanoseconds long, allowing each neutrino detected at Gran Sasso to be tied to a particular bunch produced at CERN. These tests were carried out over 10 days and provided 20 events. The researchers confirmed that the neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds early, with an uncertainty of about 10 nanoseconds, comparable to that of the initial result. The collaboration has also checked its original statistical analysis, but today’s decision to submit the results to a journal was not unanimous. “About four people” among the group of around 15 who did not sign the preprint have signed the journal submission, according to a source within the collaboration, while “four new people” have decided not to sign. That leaves the number of dissenters at about 15, compared with about 180 who did sign the journal submission.
Finding out if neutrinos actually can move faster than light.
Scientist proposes that the superluminal neutrinos are merely measuring the true speed of light
On Thursday physicist Susan Gardner of the University of Kentucky proposed in a preprint on the Los Alamos astro-ph website that the neutrinos measured at CERN that appeared to be going faster than light were merely giving us a much more accurate measure of the speed of light.
This is only one of a plethora of papers published this last week on astro-ph discussing and attacking the CERN neutrino results. I expect the scientists will solve this mystery before too long.
Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody
An evening pause: With a bit of Brooklyn at the start to set the tone!
The Moon and I
An evening pause: From the movie Topsy-Turvy (2000), Shirley Henderson singing.
Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
An Evening Pause: Let’s have some more music, this time something so deeply beautiful it makes the heart ache: Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli singing Time to Say Goodbye.