CERN and the LNGS laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy, has announced news of Einsteinian importance. The old man’s well-loved theory has been between a rock and a hard place recently and relativity could now be less of a fact than we thought. While the speed of light is accurately measured at 299,792,458 metres per sec (700 million mph) neutrinos have just been policed at an unexpected higher rate over a 450 mile test.
While the rate is a mere 60 nanoseconds faster, the incredible fact is that the speed difference is actually 12,000 mph! The Standard Model (the current basic law of physics) is threatened, even though the speed did seem to be only very slightly exceeded.
However, the sanity of scientists may not be threatened at all.
THE day after the weekend … for me, life is the opposite of most people’s working lives.
Monday morning after a hectic Saturday and Sunday at the World Cup is a chance to draw breath. For gee, it was hectic this last weekend.
Saturday I was at Eden Park, Auckland, early enough to watch the England v Romania game on TV. After that, I covered the New Zealand v France match.
The authorities say that the reason all these World Cup matches over here kick off at night is to maximise commercial value from breakfast time starts in the northern hemisphere. But from what I hear, I’m not even sure people over there like those morning kick-offs.
After Ireland’s great win over Australia the previous weekend, I heard from a friend in Dublin. “Grea
Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez, Don Kelly and Jhonny Peralta all homered as the Tigers beat the Orioles, 10-6, today at Comerica Park.
GAME LOG
The win brings Detroit to within a half-game of Texas for the second seed in the AL playoffs and home-field advantage in the ALDS. The Rangers host Seattle today.
The game was tied at three in the bottom of the fifth when Austin Jackson led off with his second single of the day. With two outs, Miguel Cabrera singled, pushing Jackson to third and setting the table for Martinez, who blasted his 12th homer of the year to left.
Cabrera went 2-for-3 today to raise his average to .341 and take the lead in the AL batting race.
Tiger Woods, the former world No1, has hired Joe LaCava, the former bagman for Dustin Johnson, as his new caddie. Meanwhile Butch Harmon, the former swing coach of Woods and current swing coach for Johnson, is “shocked” at this turn of events.
And so the soap opera continued on just another day in the world of professional golf, during which two important lessons were learned. The first is that this particular sporting community is remarkably tight, with a small cast of interchangeable characters flitting from one role to another, from one camp to the next.
Back in 1968, when she was driving from tour stop to tour stop in her Oldsmobile, not many people from outside her circle took notice of Canadian Sandra Post, but that changed quickly when she beat the iconic Kathy Whitworth in a playoff to win the LPGA Championship a few weeks past her 20th birthday.
There were no college scholarships and no development tours, so Post hit the LPGA Tour at the age of 19 and her LPGA title made her the youngest person — male of female — ever to win a major.
Post hung on to that title for decades until Morgan Pressel won the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship at 18 and even that tender age seems senior citizen in comparison to an announcement expected from commissioner Mike Whan about the future of 16-year-old Lexi Thompson.
BRENDON King has called upon his players to start taking more responsibility for their own performances.
The Weymouth boss has come under fire in recent weeks following a series of poor home displays but he is confident the tide will turn with a little more application.