The surface facility for the IceCube experiment, which is located under nearly 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) of ice in Antarctica. IceCube suggests ghostly neutrinos don't exist, but a new experiment says they do. Credit: Courtesy of IceCube Neutrino Observatory ________________________________________________________________________________
This lets-spend-billions-on-an-experiment philosophy all but guarantees verification/repeatability issues.
Like corn
Who ya gonna call?
The essence of spirits.
If it exists, it should exist. This means the scientists’ equations are wrong, and must be replaced by equations that work.
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.
....and, of course, their experiments have been unmistakably correct ever since they started calling themselves ‘scientists’. (Why all the little flags around that place? Do they have geo-caches all over or are they afraid someone isnt going to see the only multi story building in Antarctica?)
In other news: Only people that think with the “brain in their butt” qualify to be politicians!
I think neutrinos may turn out to be the most important particles in all of nature.
IIRC, research on these remarkable particles has been rewarded with at least four Nobel prizes.
They are incredibly tiny and elusive, but each one seems to carry a lot of information.
The neutron was discovered in 1932, and applied to warfare only 13 years later. Learning to use neutrons changed history in a big way.
Neutrinos were discovered in 1959, although evidence for their existence was first detected in 1930, in the mind of Wolfgang Pauli.
Neutrinos can be used to make CAT scans of the center of the earth.
Ok, humor me on this one - but the first thing I think of is when Jesus, after he was risen, appeared to the disciples in a locked room. Yes, He, being the Creator, can do what He wants - but it would be a hoot if someday he explains to us - “Yeah - about that - I was just pure Sterile Neutrinos in that moment when I passed through the wall into the room...”
Just like God to confound the ‘wise’.
“pass through matter without interacting with it at all.”
Presumably they have mass, so they’d interact gravitationally, at least.
Did the same thing with plutonium - it didn’t exist either.
Terrible headline.
If it’s observed to exist then it’s supposed to exist.
How do you detect something that doesn’t interact with anything?
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away...
Antigonish [I met a man who wasn’t there] - Hughes Mearns
Cool, it indicates physics physics beyond the Standard Model.
See the article by Lubos for more details:
https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/05/miniboone-confirms-lsnds-anomaly.html
Should be called the "Adolescent Particle."
biblical basis for particles:
John 20:19-20 New Living Translation (NLT)
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
19 That Sunday evening[a] the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said. 20 As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord!
I remember a high school teacher telling me that with the rotational nature of atoms that it would physically, though improbable, be possible to drop a pencil through a table.
So I’m trying to figure out if a particle that can pass through matter would be an unknow element (Very unlikely.) or a particle formation that heretofore has never been observed.
I’m surprised a concept like this has gone unexplored for as long as there have been physical scientists and theoretical physics.
How does one go about detecting something that doesn’t interact with anything? The whole premise is bogus, or something is seriously missing from the explanation.