Neutrinos v. GPS - II

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Last week, in what sounded like the coup de gr=E2ce in some circles,=20
Ronald A. J. van Elburg, an artificial intelligence researcher at the=20
University of Groningen in the Netherlands, suggested that the Opera=20
group had failed to make a relativistic correction for the motions of=20
the GPS satellites used in timing the neutrino beams. The resulting=20
error, he said, amounted to 64 nanoseconds, almost exactly the=20
universe-shaking discrepancy the Opera researchers were hoping to explain=
=2E

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However, GPS receivers are supposed to account for special relativity in =

computing time. So the premise above may have a big hole in it.

Indeed, rebuttal goes:

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The Opera collaborators and other outside physicists now say Dr. van=20
Elburg=92s analysis is wrong and reflects confusion about how GPS systems=
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work.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25neutrinos.html?ref=3Dscience

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