Watch Clark! Watch him.
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.
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Watch Clark! Watch him.
The Standard Model has been falsified in so many ways that I consider it a religion at this point.
I took physics so long ago that I don’t think neutrinos had been invented yet, so I don’t know anything about Antarctic neutrinos. But I guess it’s good that someone is watching them.
Has anyone mentioned yet that the science was settled?
At most it reveals a blank spot in our knowledge of physics. Which is not the same thing.
indicators of the polar shift ??
Relax. As the earth turns , it occasionally farts out neutrinos.
I guess that the Crystal Power Tower is still working ...
Wow! Someone actually admits their premise may be incorrect! That is an awakening for science. That dude deserves a grant!
Penguinos
One of the most memorable movies I have ever seen.
They're Gretons. Young particles that can be detected by their whine.
neutrinos,is that like regular ol nutria rat but lives in the ice?
“the Standard Model”
A pretentious title for a package of theories that are nothing more than a belief at a given time.
Do NOT try to find the source of these particles.
The Elder Things don’t like visitors.
This is nonsense - the Standard Model is in no way theoretically committed to only 3 generations of fermion.
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