Scientist Behind Earth-Shaking Neutrino Finding Resigns Due to Slowness of Subatomic Particles

I guess he did not get the office memo:
"What would you do, if you had no fear of failure?"

Me thinks there are other things too, that cause his leaving we may never know.

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10 years from now i bet we're all going to find out this guy was right, and it was some sort of small technical glitch that prevented him from re-producing the faster than light neutrino..

Sometimes in life the focus is a onetime event and all the life achievements are put aside. I hope in great respect, they give Professor Antonio Ereditato his due respect!
I like to give you a great round of applause!
KUDOS! KUDOS! KUDOS SIR TO YOU!

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What are some of these comments talking about. Didn't they acknowledge when this whole thing first happened that it had to be something wrong with either the experiment or the equipment? Turns out it was equipment, big deal.

If it turns out he was right shouldn't it possibly end with We "Will" be excited for a second there?

I wonder if rather than resigning by choice if he was "Asked" to resign because he was blamed for the loose cable?

This is the ugly in science, you get punished for misstakes And that is Wrong. I make misstakes all the time, thats how I learn and I get rewarded for it. The funny thing is that your fancy standard model is just what it says, a model. It's not the real world. The real world is a very mysterios place and much more than school teaches and science thinks. Now lets read Time To Get Tough by Donald Trump and u do the same and pown them all!

I don't think that this resignation is a good signal given to the science community. You do a test and report the results. If they aren't in line with what is expected, than one should not have to fear to publish these results because it brings one's job is in danger. It makes me think of the Apollo mission where an astronaut was afraid to report bad wiring out of fear to loose his job and and a fatal accident happened, see: http://youtu.be/m8chx10UbI8

Reminds me of those movies where the scientists are forced to work for an evil overlord and if their experiments fail they get killed and replaced or transferred to Siberia.

Still not sure why this man resigned over something that may not have been his fault. Perhaps I just don't know enough.

The one positive I take from this while fiasco, is once again the triumph of the scientific method. How beautiful a system that allows and even encourages the close and obsessive scrutiny of claims. It's really the best system we have to truly interrogate and learn about the way things really are.

A recent quote I read from Richard Feynman:

"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is – if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it."

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whats happened to the days when eniment proffessors and such
get there facts correct and undeniable correct before they take it to the public

The synchronization of clocks in relation to pseudo Superluminal speeds is a matter to reckon with in both the OPERA and the ICARUS experiments.Here is a relevant link:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/27908/pseudo-superluminal-motion-and-the-synchronization-of-clocks