[Mind's Eye] Re: faster than light neutrinos

"It's like living in a world without data."...Imagine...

On Oct 3, 4:28 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.universetoday.com/89407/particle-physics-and-faster-than-l...
>
> This link has a video with the best clarification I've heard.  One or
> two might be interested.
>
> One idea I do like is that of neutrinos 'seeing' a different
> geometry.  There are geometries in which distance is illusory. Knowing
> all this I'll still be taking the train into town.  People at
> Manchester 1864 don't think the results will hold, but are spinning
> some examples of what would make sense assuming they are right.  I
> always feel a bit of sadness when amongst scientists these days - it's
> to do with how different the world of sane dialogue is compared with
> everyday dross in which evidence is barely understood and reality
> denied in favour of Idols.
>
> I've become a fan of Rosanne Barr's candidature for President.  Never
> liked her show.  Neutrinos probably won't do much to Einstein's
> stuff.  Quite why economic data hasn't got us thinking in more
> primitive terms like hers I don't understand.  This is where the
> detail and supposed links with theory drives me.  We remain medieval
> in all except science.  Scientists do not proceed in very rational
> ways and it seems odd to me we abstract a false notion of this into
> our more social affairs.  The model of non-science "science" in
> politics and journalism needs to be eradicated so that values,passion,
> humour and compassion can flow without being shunned as
> 'emotionalism'.  Tiny, abberant 'neutrinos' that might be tachyons
> (with strange mass) can influence scientific thinking,yet years of
> super-rich looting, war and more and more of our own in poverty hardly
> cut muster amongst those in power.  I find this intolerable.  It's
> like living in a world without data.