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Theory Seminar

Date:
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Location:
179 Chemistry-Physics Bldg

SUPERLUMINAL NEUTRINOS WITHOUT REVOLUTION

 

                                 Susan Gardner

                                     (UK)

 

               The velocity anomaly recently reported by the OPERA collaboration appears strikingly at odds with the theory of special relativity. I offer a reinterpretation which removes this conflict, to wit that neutrinos yield a truer measurement of Einstein's limiting speed, and that light and indeed all other matter are retarded by additional interactions with the dark universe. I discuss existing experimental constraints and show that such a notion, considered cosmologically, can be subsumed in the dark-energy equation of state in an expanding Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe.

Planned measurements of the temporal variation in redshift have the potential to distinguish the possibilities.

 

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