| Transcript by www.newsy.com BY STEVEN SPARKMAN ANCHOR CHRISTIAN BRYANT The two public faces of the OPERA collaboration, the experiment that seemed to show neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light last Fall, have stepped down, reportedly over disagreements from the team on how they handled the media. Here's euronews. "An Italian professor who thought he'd disproved Einstein's theory of relativity has resigned after it turned out he hadn't. Antonio Ereditato appeared to challenge one of the fundamentals of modern physics..." But wait, is that really how it played out? Ereditato's colleague Dario Autiero, who presented the neutrino results at CERN, also stepped down on Friday, telling Nature the researchers never said they'd disproved Einstein. "Despite the fact that OPERA itself never claimed to overturn Einstein's theory, keeping its claims narrowly to the report of an anomalous measurement, many newspapers depicted it that way. 'They played with the sensationalism of the story...'" Although technical issues now seem to have been the cause of the speedy neutrino results, last Fall, the physics world exploded, trying to make sense of their results. Ereditato and Autiero say physicists' excitement was unfairly translated into "Einstein was wrong" headlines. Video from CERN at the time shows they were more cautious than reported. Autiero "We are just presenting today our result as experimentalists." Ereditato: "We would like just to say that we made a measurement, this ... |
