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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Eric Sakk
| fields = Physics
| known_for = Conceptual framework for faster-than-light neutrinos
}}

'''Eric Sakk''' is a researcher known for a speculative interpretation of the 2011 OPERA faster-than-light neutrino reports. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.

==Work==
With co-author Aradhya P. Kumar, Sakk posted "A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos" to arXiv in February 2012. The paper argues that apparent superluminal neutrino times-of-flight need not violate special relativity. Sakk and Kumar propose that, at very small scales, spacetime takes on a Kerr-type metric, so that strong frame-dragging effects near the Planck length compress the effective path length a neutrino traverses relative to what a large-scale observer would expect. They attribute the microscopic path-length compression to the formation of "micro-wormholes" near the Planck scale and frame the effect as evidence in support of, rather than a contradiction of, general relativity at quantum scales. The proposal lies outside the scientific mainstream, and the original OPERA measurement was subsequently traced to instrumental error.

==External links==
* [https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5560 "A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos" (arXiv)]

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