Oct 14, 2011
The greatest abstract for a journal article ever
Physicist Michael Berry and a few others have published a paper addressing the recent claim that some neutrinos can travel faster than light.
Their willingness to flout jargon and summarize their findings clearly and succinctly is commendable…
(via Improbable Research)
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Superluminal is a nice word isn’t it? He moved at superluminal speeds…
Wish I could get away with that for my thesis!
Bah…Leon Knopoff did this in 1974 with only word.
http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/64/5/1363.abstract
He also wrote a paper that’s title was only one letter in 1964
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/RG002i004p00625/abstract
Indeed, it’s pretty short, the shortest abridgement I’ve seen ever.