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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
This is all beyond my pay grade, but I suspect ol’ Albert would have been pulling his hair out in frustration over string theory with its what, 13 dimensions? I lose count.
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics” — Feynman.
The game is rigged but you have to play!
Lol! You can say that again!
Pretty ironic that a universe so amazing and infinitely complex can be responsible for producing a Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters.
It depends on which version of String Theory, now there’s M Theory!
I’ll have to read that about 7 or 8 times to absorb even a portion of it. Seriously, it looks interesting and you appear to be writing in a fashion I can make sense of. Eventually. Appreciate it.
Well you have to have the lower thresholds - the bad examples!
Reality Formula:
Universe = What you can imagine + What you can’t imagine
Bookmark for later... Thanks for the article!
They’re a bunch of dudes that live in a round neighborhood. The morons aren’t there though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbqIJZ8wCM
OOOOO! a new particle! now they’ve discovered the ultimate secret of the universe!
“Apparently Einstein agreed with your view cuz he’s reputed to have pretty much hated quantum mechanics. “
Hmmm ....
“I have the greatest consideration for the goals which are pursued by the physicists of the latest generation which go under the name of quantum mechanics, and I believe that this theory represents a profound level of truth ...”
“Albert Einstein may be most famous for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, but his work also laid down the foundation for modern quantum mechanics.
His analysis of the “spookiness” of quantum mechanics opened up a whole range of applications including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics – and that story is as fascinating as the theory he attempted to nail down...”
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2014-06-einstein-quantum-mechanics-hed-today.html#jCp
>>Probably due to the influx of illegal migrant neutrinos...<<
And the deep state quanta populated with some neutrons but mostly morons.
Science has a long history of declaring phenomena to be purely random only to find out later how wrong they were. It's usually a bad bet to bet against Einstein, or Trump.
“, but he wasn’t completely convinced by the theory of quantum mechanics”
Not of gravity waves.
“Together with a young collaborator, I arrived at the interesting result that gravitational waves do not exist, though they had been assumed a certainty to the first approximation,” he wrote in a letter to his friend Max Born.
Einstein submitted his change of heart in a paper to the Physical Review Letters titled “Do gravitational waves exist?”
True but so far QM still works! Tomorrow...who knows?
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose
J.B.S. Haldane (5 Nov 1892 - 1 Dec 1964) English geneticist and biometrician.
I'm sure they'll find a way to link it with 'dark matter'.
I remember AE walking down the street (there were no sidewalks there then) past my house lost in thought wearing a black overcoat and a grayish fedora ...
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