Hang on, hang on.  Now I heard about this a few days ago, we had it on the news, but I've just been thinking. It took them how long to build Cern, and to create and install the LHC?  And then to fix the problem with the LHC?

(did I hear someone dropped a sandwich in the works?)

and now they are asking for someone else to check their results?.... how long exactly will we have to wait while someone (who might, or might not) build a 2nd LHC, and drill another how many miles of tunnel (the distance from Cern to that other lab in Italy) so that someone else can duplicate the results (and presumably check the presence of a 2nd sandwich???)?

ROFL!

Okay, sorry, but it just sounded a bit weird.  Hopefully they just mean "check my workings out" and not "re-do the experiment."

All joking aside, I do hope it gets cleared up soon, so we can be properly joyful that super duper faster than light neutrinos do actually exist.

It would be terribly depressing to wait and wait, and then to find out that it was a wibble in a clock.

Maybe it's the clock that's going faster than light?

Hey, if it is a superfast neutrino - what are they going to call it?

How about calling it : A Wibble?

Or is it actually a Higgs Boson?  A God Particle?  Fun stuff, anyway.

So long as it doesn't turn out that we are living in 'Interesting Times'..... (ancient chinese curse)

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