Posted on 04/29/2019 8:47:54 AM PDT by C19fan
Researchers at the XENON dark matter observatory have spotted something incredibly rare. Unfortunately, its not dark matter, but it is the next best thing. The detectors at the observatory have spotted the decay of xenon-124, the rarest event ever recorded in human history.
The XENON experiment is designed to detect dark matter, which is not an easy task. The reason that dark matter is so mysterious is that it pretty much never does anything, which makes it hard to spot. Dark matter doesnt give off light, or have any sort of magnetic field, and it almost never interacts with normal matter in any way.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
Models die hard.....When will the theorists look for another explanation for the holding together of the universe being that the universe is so old?
Oh...I forgot...it’s settled science...
Dark matter matters.
“While most xenon isotopes have half-lives of less than 12 days, researchers think a few are exceptionally long-lived, and essentially stable. Xenon 124 is one of those, though researchers have estimated its half-life at 160 trillion years as it decays into tellurium 124.”
https://www.futurity.org/xenon-124-neutrios-isotopes-physics-2045552-2/
Maybe dark matter drives climate change. Same scientists?
Shouldn’t you be out pimping electric golf karts?
“Shouldnt you be out pimping electric golf karts?”
Rare because there hasn't been a recorded instance of it.
I heard there was one in 1964 but I was only 7 so I can't attest to it.
“To be fair Dark Matter is a fancy way of saying fudge factor”
Without fudge factors we would have no physics.
I want to know how they are so absolutely certain that all 3.5 tons of material they have in their tank is 100.0000000000000000000% is pure Xenon124? Perhaps it is really 99.9999999999% Xenon124 and there is 0.0000000001% spurious CO2 with some of the Carbon in that Carbon DiOxide being made up of the 14C isotope mixed in among their Xenon124 which just decayed and they saw that instead? I think they are making quite an assumption based on a single flash of light in absolute darkness.
Frankly, I dont think we have the ability to make ANYTHING that pure.
“A democrat spoke the truth?”
This is by far the most rare event known to man!!!
;>)
hitlary doing squats with a barbell loaded with 200-lbs?
I would. My father-in-law used to work at the one by Waxahachie, Texas before President Lewinski defunded it.
I didn’t say they were bad things. I’ve used em myself. Just that they represent that area of the “ I have no clue” but this makes my equations work
“I didnt say they were bad things. Ive used em myself. Just that they represent that area of the I have no clue but this makes my equations work”
Interesting. What fudge factors have you developed?
They were project specific. You wouldnt recognize them.
Dark AMtter, the catch all we cannot figure out how God did this so we will create a miracle pile of goo that provides all the stupid suppositions that we waste money on trying to figure out.
We cannot reliably even study the very planet we live on and these parasites sit around positing the most inane ideas and theories.
I know, my brother watches them incessantly and in the long run it is a bunch of pointy heads trying to out do God and explain that He had nothing to do with the creation of the universe.
Mental Masturbation of the first water
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