[LINK] What is actual?: "Particles found to break speed of light" - sharing a link

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 23/09/11 7:35 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> On 2011/Sep/23, at 7:08 AM, Tom Koltai wrote:
>
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>>> speed of light" - sharing a link
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>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/science-light-idUSL5E7KM4CW201
>> 10922
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>> sylvano
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>>
>> Hmm...
>> Quote/
>> "Light would have covered the distance in around 2.4 thousandths of a
>> second, but the neutrinos took 60 nanoseconds -- or 60 billionths of a
>> second -- less than light beams would have taken."
>> /Quote
>>
>>
>> Hark, I hear an imprudent rumour... Does that mean the NBN is already
>> obsolete because its packets have unacceptable light speed latency
>> issues ?
> No it's because neutrinos don't need fibre - they're wireless!
>
Please, can someone get this to Alan Jones?

RC