From, http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...lved-20111014/


Well, it looks like Ronald van Elburg at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has come up with a theory that may stand up to disprove the neutrino discovery. It all comes down to the simple idea that OPERA is not accounting for movement in their GPS clocks that are based onsatellites in orbit.</p>

In layman&rsquo;s terms, <font color="#092b89">CERN</font> is using satellites to track the time it is taking neutrinos to travel from France to Italy. The announced discovery was that the neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds before light particles should have. There are many different factors that CERN has to weigh in during the measurements of time and space, and their one fatal flaw may be that because of the nature of the experiment, it considers their detectors to be based on the ground instead of in space. Because of that issue, CERN has not taken into account the relative movement of the GPS clocks on their two satellites. Both satellites are moving, one toward the other, and the other one away from the first.</p>

Because of this movement, van Elburg has suggested that the detector clocks are calculating the wrong distance, because they are assuming that the source of the signal is moving towards them and compensating. Using that idea, van Elburg calculated that the clocks were subtracting about 32 nanoseconds of time, because there was less distance to travel according to the detectors. Now, that in itself would not be enough, since the neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds ahead of schedule. Here is the catch: thediscrepancyworks both ways between the detector clocks because they are both in motion. So you would have to multiply the subtracted time by two. The result, 64 nanoseconds of time that has been shaved off due to an error, too close for comfort to the time of the neutrinos.

Happy flying, Oscar</p>