I will write the main body of this article only in English. I will encourage your participation by answering the questions.


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The following passage is the latter half of the LA Times article cited in my prior post. Please read it and answer the subsequent questions in English.



Several physicists contacted by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday evening said the OPERA team had probably made errors in its measurements.

Clocking with precision how long it takes neutrinos to leave a collider and hit a target 450 miles away "is not a simple thing," said Stan Wojcicki, an emeritus professor of physics at Stanford University. "It's not like measuring the speed of someone doing the 100-meter dash."

Friday's news release from CERN began addressing questions about the team's methods. It noted that the scientists had teamed up with metrologists -- experts in making measurements -- from several institutions, and used state-of-the-art GPS systems and atomic clocks, to make their observations. The margin of error was within 10 nanoseconds, CERN reported.

"Our measurements have low systematic uncertainty and high statistical accuracy and we place great confidence in our results," Dario Autero, a researcher on the team, said in the release.

Wojcicki said Thursday that he was reserving judgment on the results until he had a chance to read the paper and view a seminar on the results that took place at CERN on Friday morning. "I tend to be skeptical," he told The Times. "Then again, when I was younger and the field was just starting, there were a lot of surprising developments early in the game."

For example, physicists discovered just in the last 15 years that neutrinos have mass and that they can change from one type to another. "People were very skeptical," Wojcicki said. "If you asked many respectable physicists early in the game at a comparable stage [then], they would have said it was wrong."

Lisa Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard University and author of "Knocking on Heaven's Door," said that the neutrino discovery -- and scientists' reactions to it -- offer a good view of the way the scientific process is supposed to progress.

"This is how science works," she told The Times. "It could turn out it's wrong. But if it's right, it forces us to extend our theories."


Questions:


1) What are the general thoughts among the community of scientists/physicists toward the result of the measurements?

2) What reason did the Stanford professor give to consider the way you answered question 1) above?

3) How is CERN responding to the attitudes of the general community of scientists?

4) What stance does the Stanford professor hold?

5) What would authorities in physics have thought of this event 15 years ago?

6) What does the Harvard professor describe in her speech?

7) Please write your thoughts on this event in a few sentences.



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