Comments about "Measurements of neutrino speed" in Wikipedia

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Introduction

The article starts with the following sentence.
Astronomical searches investigate whether light and neutrinos emitted simultaneously from a distant source are arriving simultaneously on Earth.
You have to be sure that they are emitted simultaneously.
Terrestrial searches include time of flight measurements using synchronized clocks, and direct comparison of neutrino speed with the speed of other particles.
These other particles should also in clude photons.

1. Overview

Thus, they should travel slightly slower than light, otherwise their relativistic energy would become infinitely large.
First you should establish, by means of experiments, if the speed of neutrino's is slower or equal than the speed of light, then you can try to find a physical explanation.
This energy is given by the formula: E = m*c^2 / sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
with v being the neutrino speed and c the speed of light.
There is 'nothing' wrong with this formula, except that it does not explain any physical behaviour.
There exists also a different formula: E = m*v^2. This one is never mentioned ?

2. Fermilab (1970s)

3. Supernova 1987A

4. MINOS (2007)

5. OPERA (2011, 2012)

To exclude possible statistical errors, CERN produced bunched proton beams between October and November 2011.
The word 'statistical' should be removed.
Maybe this should be written: To improve accuracy.

5.1 Anomaly

5.2 End result

6. LNGS (2012)

6.1 Borexino

6.2 LVD

6.3 ICARUS

6.4 OPERA

7. MINOS (2012)

7.1 Old timing system

7.2 New timing system

8. Indirect determinations of neutrino speed

9. References

10. Related belletristic

11. See also

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