i know about red (and blue) shift and how all that works, however you are 100% wrong in your second paragraph if i am understanding what you mean correctly. what you are saying is that if light beam A is travelling in one direction in space (at the speed of light, naturally) and light beam B is travelling towards light beam A at the speed of light then the closing speed (the rate at which the gap between beam A and B is getting smaller) is the speed of light. that is physically impossible because then the light beams would really be going half the speed of light.
anyway, i think the original problem is me not explaining things properly. a diagram of what i'm on about should help:
Code:
C = cerns position
D = detectors position
[ ] = earth
- = neutrinos position
neutrinos are created, going instantly at light speed:
[C- D]
time passes, earth moves through space in opposite direction to neutrinos
(i have no idea how much)
[C - D]
[C - D]
[C -D]
neutrino's have now arrived
physical distance between cern and detector:
[C D]
distance neutrinos have traveled:
[C D]
neutrinos went at light speed but because the physical distance they travelled
is smaller than the actual distance between cern and the detector they
appeared to go faster when doing the time/distance calculations
hopefully you see what im getting at now. the way to check if this is the case is to do the experiment in a lab where the emitter and detector are at opposite ends relative to the ones at cern, but i dont know if something like that exists (and it would be ****ing expensive)
