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Posted on 06/03/2018 1:08:06 PM PDT by ETL
Pip-squeak particles called neutrinos are dishing out more than scientists had bargained for.
A particle detector has spotted a puzzling abundance of the lightweight subatomic particles and their antimatter partners, antineutrinos, physicists report May 30 at arXiv.org. The finding mirrors a neutrino excess found more than two decades ago. And that match has researchers wondering if a new type of particle called a sterile neutrino — one even more shadowy than the famously elusive ordinary neutrinos — might be at large.
Such a particle, if it exists, would transform the foundations of particle physics and could help solve cosmic puzzles like the existence of dark matter, an unidentified inert substance that makes up the preponderance of the matter in the universe.
The new study was conducted with a neutrino detector called MiniBooNE, while the previous neutrino excess was found with a different apparatus, the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector, which operated in the 1990s at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. “We have two very different detectors … and we have the same results,” says MiniBooNE physicist En-Chuan Huang of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Hints of excess neutrinos have shown up in earlier results from MiniBooNE, which has been operating since 2002 at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. But the new research includes twice as much data, making the neutrino deluge too strong to ignore.
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New Jersey?
“This gives physicists another ‘fudge-factor’ to hedge their theories.”
Go back into your cave.
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I think we should sell surplus neutrinos to needy third world countries.
I remember reading that Scientists around the turn of twentieth century concluded that had figured out pretty much everything. Soon they realized that they had not and were wrong about almost everything.
Global warming - it’s sterilizing the neutrinos !!
So, cost of neutrinos going down?
Then there is unobtainable they may or may not find.
Although I started out as a math-and-science nerd replete with awards in both, I have never sweated over these things for two reasons:
One, I consider the paramount principle to be that the Model is not the Real. I consider all models thus either more or less accurate relatively (no pun intended), not absolutely true or false. Neither Relativity nor QM is equatable with Reality. Neither Bohr nor SPDF are disqualified from being models.
If I have a 1/72 P-51, then a 1/48 one, the greater accuracy of the latter does not invalidate the former. It is not that one retains its “modelness” while the other loses it. Further, neither one is the same as a real P-51; there are always characteristics and properties missing (like flying with a Homo sapiens at the stick).
Two, I am a Christian who has been in ministry. I think the Creator knows what He is doing, whether we do or not. It is interesting and beneficial to contemplate, but not existentially exigent.
That is what lies at the root of my suspicions. That there is no one, single 'answer' to what reality is. For one thing, there is no one, over-riding vantage point or perspective to make any such determinations. For example, reality would appear different at different size scales (our everyday realm vs the quantum realm or the grand, cosmological scale/realm). It would be like our sense of the world vs that of the tiniest microbe, only far more extreme. When you enter in the possibility of multiple universes and multiple dimensions it gets even more absurd.
Yes, I fully agree with that. I was in a rush and so didn't take the time to properly read those Wiki excerpts prior to posting them.
In any case, what they basically was describing was a very strange, mystifying phenomenon of the quantum world where two quantum entities somehow remain in (instantaneous) contact with each other even after being separated by enormous distances, in theory, across billions of light years.
Lol! Good one. Nearly as concise as e=mc^2.
Sure seems that way, at least these days, with transgender restrooms, same sex marriage, and all the rest. :)
.” That there is no one, single ‘answer’ to what reality”
The Word.
He gave it to us.
Thank you Jesous Christos
John Chapter 1
Genesis Chapter 1
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