I think this is research trying to determine why the neutrino count for the sun is quite a bit lower, maybe 2/3’s lower, than it is supposed to be for a 5 billion year old sun.
I think this is research trying to determine why the neutrino count for the sun is quite a bit lower, maybe 2/3’s lower, than it is supposed to be for a 5 billion year old sun.
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Someone sold us a used sun and rolled back the odometer to make it look younger.
Little Neutrino
Klaatu
Across your open mind
I trace erratic lines
In motion and in time
I fought a battle won
To the surface of the sun
Through fires on and on
It’s only you
It can’t be me
For I myself refuse to be
I am someone you’ll never know
I am the little neutrino
Solus is not far away
It’s face is brighter than a day
So don’t turn me away
It’s only you
It can’t be me
For I myself refuse to be
I am someone you’ll never know
I am the little neutrino
And now I’m passing through
The one who’s known as you
And yet you’ll never know I do
“Good-night”
Songwriters: Dee(david) Long
Little Neutrino lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
The missing-solar-neutrino question has been answered; the explanation is called "neutrino oscillation," and has so far generated two Nobel prizes, one for the discovery of the "missing" neutrinos, and the other for the experimental proof that there are actually three different types of neutrino, and that each neutrino oscillates between three different types as it flies through the universe.
Only one of the three was detected by the Homestake mine experiment; by missing the other two, that detector seemed to detect only one-third the number of neutrons that were expected from the sun.