“A theory,” Robert Frost observed, “If you hold it hard enough and and long enough gets listed as a creed.” “And people build castles on it,” observes Old Jules.
A September report from CERN giving results of neutrino experiments might rattle some expensive real estate underneath castles so solid we don’t even think of them as ‘theory’. Neutrino bunches, they found, were moving at speeds higher than light speed. 60 billionths of a second faster than light doesn’t sound like much, but it was enough to raise a lot of naysaying and protests the results couldn’t be valid.
The experiments were repeated, this time taking into account the factors that might account for result errors. Now those results are out. Those Communist neutrino SOBs are STILL going faster than light speed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15791236
Lousy news for all manner of certainties of physics stacked precariously atop old Albert’s theory that became a creed. But nobody cares about neutrinos anyway and how fast they go. The smart approach would be to just ignore it and not let it foul the nests of everyone working on all manner of important other theories they figured on becoming creeds.
But if you can’t trust a neutrino, who can you trust? What other Communists and anarchists are skulking and going faster than light and not getting caught at it because it would violate the speed limit and nobody was playing cop?
The world of people who call themselves scientists because they’ve read and memorized what people getting their hands dirty put forward as theory and adopted it as a creed to say back and forth to one another doesn’t like to be banged around this way. Yanking the rug out of things they memorized creates all manner of conversational difficulties. Now when they say something they memorized there’s a chance someone who memorized something different will say that back. Instead of two people reassuring one another how mutually smart they are, how well they both understand everything, you get this pack of mooshy uncertainties and blank looks.
All because of something so small nobody can see it anyway.
Who cares how fast a neutrino goes, anyway? It doesn’t exceed light speed because 10,000 grant applications are based on premises relying on light speed being the speed limit.
Everyone hates cops and snitches.
Occupy CERN.
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 
Ha, so true! Personal accountability is at an all time low in the mainstream, let alone in the scientific community.
I have a friend who’s in his 3rd year of physics (specialized for energy production or something like that) who has failed to grasp more than the basics of quantum physics, literally calling it “hocus pocus that can’t be trusted”. It’s a sad affair when simplicity outweighs validity.
waltznmatildah: I’d say it isn’t clear at the moment what outweighs what. Nor what’s valid. Thanks for stopping in. Jules
Amazing statistic: Chatter about neutrinos and Newt’s standing in the Presidential race both increased by the exact same percentage last week.
Hi joem. Thanks for stopping in for a read. Jules
Old Jules, you are awesome!
I’m laughing loudly in the middle of the night. Thank you!
Hi Alexandra. Glad you came by for a read. Gracias, Jules
Oh, Jules, I always do. I guess you blog is one of the most enjoyable places online for me.
Alexandra: Nice having you here. Jules
Just a note, Einstein has nothing to do with the Speed of Light.
willbell123: Neither do neutrinos. Gracias, Jules
I wonder if thoughts are neutrino speed??????Has some interesting implications if they are….
Hi Richly Anonymous: I don’t recall seeing you be anonymous before. Yeah, it’s interesting any way you cut it. Gracias, Jules
Hi Jules, I have nominated you for the “Liebster Blog” award. For further information, kindly check out my latest post on this award. Gracias, Michael.
Thanks Michael. I’ll have a looksee. Gracias, Jules
Dearest Jules, I am not a physicist, but simply fascinated by theories. I have heard many and many more are to come. For someone like me It’s like being at a dinner party, listening to all the topics people usually put on the table, being myself silent and wandering in my own fantastic elaborations of the same topics. I belive it’s just as good as contribuiting to the theories pool. Since now we are able to connect to the parallel universes ( white holes)…well then even my theories could be possible and valid…in another universe of course 😉
How fun it is to follow you! You can’t imagine.
Hugs!
Hi Anita: Thanks for the visit. I’m not a physicist my ownself, so I know the feeling of not being one. Gracias, Jules