Prima di tutto, quelli di OPERA hanno detto di aver tenuto conto di TUTTI gli effetti relativistici, quindi fino a prova contraria anche di questo (inoltre già il sistema GPS tiene conto di questi fenomeni
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Art ... rr-2003-1/ ).
Ma, soprattutto, il fisico olandese sbaglia perché la sincronia è stata ottenuta utilizzando un ground link e la precisione delle misure temporali è stata verificata da due istituti di metrologia indipendenti..Dal paper di OPERA:
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“A key feature of the neutrino velocity measurement is the accuracy of the relative time tagging at CERN and at the OPERA detector. The standard GPS receivers formerly installed at CERN and LNGS would feature an insufficient ~100 ns accuracy for the TOFν measurement. Thus, in 2008, two identical systems, composed of a GPS receiver for time-transfer applications Septentrio PolaRx2e operating in “common-view” mode and a Cs atomic clock Symmetricom Cs4000, were installed at CERN and LNGS. They were calibrated by the Swiss Metrology Institute (METAS) and established a permanent time link between two reference points (tCERN and tLNGS) of the timing chains of CERN and OPERA at the nanosecond level. The difference between the time base of the CERN and OPERA PolaRx2e receivers was measured to be (2.3 ± 0.9) ns. This correction was taken into account in the application of the time link.
The relative positions of the elements of the CNGS beam line are known with millimetre accuracy. When these coordinates are transformed into the global geodesy reference frame ETRF2000 by relating them to external GPS benchmarks, they are known within 2 cm accuracy.
The high-accuracy time-transfer GPS receiver allows to continuously monitor tiny
movements of the Earth’s crust, such as continental drift that shows up as a smooth variation of less than 1 cm/year, and the detection of slightly larger effects due to earthquakes.”