that if an effect (such as dependence of the speed on the energy) is not forbidden by symmetries, it will occur. It's really incompatible with the relativity even using the larger limiting speed. It's incompatible with precision Michelson-Morley, too: if the limiting speed were higher, the speed of photons would depend on the speed of sources and speeds of observers etc., and I claim that to a detectable extent today.It's just vastly more likely that a grad student hacked the Opera collaboration and modified some numbers, or that one of thousands of possible errors (including wrong calibration of GPS that affects all of its users equally) has occurred. |