Was Einstein Wrong?

[steingar]

CERN Physicists find neutrinos that can travel faster than c, according to CNN.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Anybody have an idea how they synchronized two time references 730 km apart?

Here's their paper on arXiv:

http://static.arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897.pdf

 

[Jim Logajan]

The time of flight measurement does not appear to be between that of two discrete events, but rather between two distributions of events. As best I can make out, there is an underlying assumption that there is a linear correlation along the time durations between the two distributions. I think that is also what the author of this article is getting at in his critique:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2011/sep/24/1?newsfeed=true