Relativity accommodates superluminal mean velocities
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-02-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Contrary to a widespread belief, measures of velocity can yield a value larger than , the instantaneous light speed in vacuum, without contradicting Einstein's relativity. Nevertheless, the effect turns out to be too small to explain the recently claimed superluminal velocity by the OPERA collaboration. Several other general relativistic effects acting on the OPERA neutrinos are also analyzed. All of them are unable to explain the OPERA result.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.0805,
title = {Relativity accommodates superluminal mean velocities},
author = {B. Alles},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0805},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages; Latex source, 2 eps figures (expanded discussion, a few typos corrected, some refs. added)