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Old 09-23-2011, 07:17 PM   #34
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at this much faster than C it would mean that neutrinos from SN1987A would have arrived some time in 1983.
SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs from Earth, approximately 168,000 light-years.... The light from the supernova reached Earth on February 23, 1987.

I am so sorry, but I fail to see the reasons of being astonished by 1987-1983 = 4 over approximately 168,000. That is of 18 over 750,000.
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