Posted on 01/24/2020 5:46:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
The death of this reigning physics paradigm, the Standard Model, has been predicted for decades. There are hints of its problems in the physics we already have. Strange results from laboratory experiments suggest flickers of ghostly new species of neutrinos beyond the three described in the Standard Model. And the universe seems full of dark matter that no particle in the Standard Model can explain.
But recent tantalizing evidence might one day tie those vague strands of data together: Three times since 2016, ultra-high-energy particles have blasted up through the ice of Antarctica, setting off detectors in the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a machine dangling from a NASA balloon far above the frozen surface.
As Live Science reported in 2018, those events — along with several additional particles detected later at the buried Antarctic neutrino observatory IceCube — don't match the expected behavior of any Standard Model particles. The particles look like ultra high-energy neutrinos. But ultra high-energy neutrinos shouldn't be able to pass through the Earth. That suggests that some other kind of particle — one that's never been seen before — is flinging itself into the cold southern sky.
Now, in a new paper, a team of physicists working on IceCube have cast heavy doubt on one of the last remaining Standard Model explanations for these particles: cosmic accelerators, giant neutrino guns hiding in space that would periodically fire intense neutrino bullets at Earth. A collection of hyperactive neutrino guns somewhere in our northern sky could have blasted enough neutrinos into Earth that we'd detect particles shooting out of the southern tip of our planet. But the IceCube researchers didn't find any evidence of that collection out there, which suggests new physics must be needed to explain the mysterious particles.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Don’t fit the known laws of physics, NOT “defy physics”. This headline is from a “science” magazine?
...giant neutrino guns hiding in space that would periodically fire intense neutrino bullets at Earth...
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WTF!!!
Drink!
“...giant neutrino guns hiding in space that would periodically fire intense neutrino bullets at Earth...”
Most likely source: Uranus.
First in ;^)
Is it coming out of that hole that the flying saucers go in?
Well you would be the first in. And I would be dead.
Some people believe in God. Some people believe in Dark matter. And some people believe both exist. I believe in the former but I consider the latter to be an hypothesis. :)
aliens, man is stoopid
It’s just Jeffery Epstein trying to make contact with young aliens...
It’s aliens, man.
Most likely source: Uranus.
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Never shoot neutrino guns at Uranis. That could give you a bad case of asteroids
Amen.
Well...THAT cost me twenty minutes to clean the coffee off the monitor...
Have any monoliths been found?
“Never shoot neutrino guns at Uranis. That could give you a bad case of asteroids”
Sometimes you must, to get rid of the Klingons.
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