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To: VadeRetro
I was under the impression that neutrinos had been believed to have been detected, but that the tools to detect them lacked the precision to do so reliably. If I'm mistaken there, then it was a bad example to use in that list. :-)
768 posted on 11/30/2004 7:55:47 AM PST by NJ_gent (Conservatism begins at home. Security begins at the border. Please, someone, secure our borders.)
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To: NJ_gent
I was under the impression that neutrinos had been believed to have been detected, but that the tools to detect them lacked the precision to do so reliably. If I'm mistaken there, then it was a bad example to use in that list.

I think we can even tell one flavor of neutrino from another. (Muon from tau, etc.) The resolution of the "missing solar neutrino" controversy was that some of the neutrinos morph from one flavor to another in transit and for a long time we were only detecting the one kind.

779 posted on 11/30/2004 8:17:06 AM PST by VadeRetro (Nothing means anything when you go to Hell for knowing what things mean.)
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